US Patent Issued to CARRIER on March 31 for "Obfuscating data in controller area network messages for transport refrigeration units" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,710, issued on March 31, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Obfuscating data in controller area network messages for transport refrigeration units" was invented by James Robinson (Camillus, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of securing communications in a transport refrigeration unit is provided. The method including: generating a CAN data; obfuscating the CAN data to generate an obfuscated CAN data; transmitting the obfuscated CAN data; receiving the obfuscated CAN data by at least one of a node or a main micro; and de-obfuscating the obfuscated CAN data to generate the CAN data."

The patent was ...