ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,739, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Vehicle data access system with a personal authenticating process" was invented by Stephen Nees (Irvine, Calif.), Florian Puget (Diemen, Netherlands), Sam Charles (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brian Stuart Boggs (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure related to the configuration and management of accessibility of vehicle data communications provided to a service technician or other third party. The service technician requests access to the vehicle data with authentication information. The network service provider can facilitate an in...