US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 1 for "Method and device for checking an integrity of data stored in a non-volatile memory of an electronic control unit of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,928, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and device for checking an integrity of data stored in a non-volatile memory of an electronic control unit of a vehicle" was invented by Manjeet Singh Bilra (Hoerlkofen, Germany) and Mohamed-Saad Abdelhameed (Dachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for checking an integrity of data stored in an electronic control unit of a vehicle. A first hash value is determined based on the stored data using a hash function at the electronic control unit triggered by a request of a boot loader of the electroni...