US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Communication with in-vehicle data communication module using network tunnel based on user selection" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,936, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Communication with in-vehicle data communication module using network tunnel based on user selection" was invented by Koji Takeoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device communicating with an in-vehicle terminal includes a control unit that performs: authentication based on authentication information that the communication device receives from the in-vehicle terminal by using a tunnel established on an access network selected from among a plurality of access networks available for communication between the in-vehicle terminal and the c...