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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2022
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
The Regents of the University of Colorado, Denver, CO (US);
Kang G. Shin, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Liang He, Denver, CO (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A driving authentication system is presented for a vehicle. The system includes: a dongle interfaced with a battery of the vehicle and an authenticator configured to receive a discharge current from the battery. The dongle operates to modulate discharge current from the battery with an input code; and the authenticator demodulate the input code from the discharge current, compares the input code to the one or more known authentication codes and, in response to the input code matching one of the one or more known authentication codes, controls power capacity of the battery.