US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems America on Aug. 4 for "Use of biometric data to facilitate personalization services such as vehicle immobilization in automobiles" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,939, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems America (Peachtree City, Ga.).

"Use of biometric data to facilitate personalization services such as vehicle immobilization in automobiles" was invented by Derek Louis Didier (Newnan, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalization arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an infrared camera capturing data that is unique to a human user disposed within the motor vehicle. Infrastructure implements a command from the human user. A database stores sets of data. Each set of data corresponds to a respective human user. An electronic processor determines whether the dat...