ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,372, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"On-vehicle apparatus and control method" was invented by Fumiya Kohzu (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Saito (Osaka, Japan) and Tomohiro Konuma (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-vehicle apparatus includes: a storage that stores apparatus information related to an external apparatus, the apparatus information being stored for registering the external apparatus as a first apparatus capable of using the on-vehicle apparatus; and a controller that deletes the apparatus information stored in the storage when a use of the on-vehicle app...