US Patent Issued to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP on July 21 for "Updating vehicle ownership authorizations" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,506, issued on July 21, was assigned to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Updating vehicle ownership authorizations" was invented by Erik Lindberg Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Anders Bengtsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of updating vehicle ownership authorizations in a vehicular system and such a system that includes a memory unit and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit monitors data, provisioned by one or more vehicle sensory systems, related to a vehicle user and to at least on...