ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,085, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric mobile vehicle, portable terminal device, and wireless communication program" was invented by Koki Yamanaka (Osaka, Japan), Katsuaki Hamamoto (Gifu, Japan) and Naohisa Morimoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electric mobile vehicle to which a power storage pack is attached, a controller obtains, from the power storage pack via wired or wireless communication, a verification code that is to be used in a process of exchanging an encryption key that is to be used for short-range wireless communicati...