US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 21 for "Method by which device shares digital key" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,502, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method by which device shares digital key" was invented by Taehyung Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sooyeon Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Inyoung Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Duckey Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyewon Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jonghyo Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of sharing a digital key between devices, and a method, performed by an owner device in a wireless communication system, including transmitting, to a friend device, key configuration data, receiving, fro...