ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,882, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Method for protecting data of a user in a vehicle and a vehicle" was invented by Erik Lindberg Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Johan Setterberg (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting data of a user in a vehicle, wherein the vehicle has a first memory, a distress sensor system, a processing circuitry operatively connected to memory and the distress sensor system, wherein the memory stores personal data linked to the user, the m...