ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,271, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Controlling permissions of vehicle signals" was invented by Pierre Pierre Blais (Kanata, Canada), Xavier Javornicki (Ottawa) and Geordon Thomas Ferguson (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used to control permissions of vehicle signals. In some aspects, one example method includes: receiving a permission map, wherein the permission map comprises a configured permission value of a permission element of a node in a vehicle signal catalog; and setting a permission value of the permission element of the node ...