US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 17 for "Vehicle and certificate validation method of vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,408, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and certificate validation method of vehicle" was invented by Hojin Jung (Bucheon-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A certificate validation method of a vehicle may include: receiving, by a controller of a vehicle and from an external device, a certificate for authenticating the external device; and based on a determination that wireless communication is available between the controller and a certificate validation server: sending, by the controller and to the certificate validation server, the cert...