ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,113, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for detecting a manipulation of a message of a bus system of a vehicle" was invented by Michael Weiner (Munich), Peter Winklhofer (Munich), Robert Meinlschmidt (Munich), Theresa Reiner (Munich) and Markus Anton (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using a controller of a vehicle to detect manipulation of a message of a bus system of the vehicle is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving, at the controller, the message from the bus system of the vehicle, and ascertaining a state of a learning method of the controller based on a ...