ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,170, issued on May 5, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Secure peer-to-peer communication protocol" was invented by Andrzej Ekiert (Smolnica, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securely transmitting data between first and second processing units, each storing a shared secure key and respective first and second identifiers, includes transmitting an authentication challenge from the first processing unit to the second processing unit. The authentication challenge includes a first random number. The method includes generating a session key and an authentication key at each of the correspon...