US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on May 12 for "Controlling access of a vehicle based on local clock timings and a digital key interface" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,630, issued on May 12, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Controlling access of a vehicle based on local clock timings and a digital key interface" was invented by Christoffer Carlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Alfons Massey (Trollhattan, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding controlling access to a vehicle. Access of the vehicle, by a second device, can be controlled by a first device utilizing authentication keys, access duration, and/or generation of access confirmations and access revocations. Respective timing of operations can be based on one or more timings ...