ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,887, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"CAN bus protection systems and methods" was invented by Colin Wee (Columbus, Ohio), Ian LoVerde (Centreville, Va.) and Douglas A. Thornton (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "CAN bus signal format inference includes: extracting candidate signals from training CAN bus message traffic; defining one or more signals, each signal being a candidate signal that matches structural characteristics of a matching data type and each signal being assigned the matching data type; and generating an inferred CAN bus protocol with which the defined one o...