US Patent Issued to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) on Oct. 6 for "Vehicle secure start method and apparatus, electronic control unit and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,576, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Vehicle secure start method and apparatus, electronic control unit and storage medium" was invented by Chunshu Lan (Ningde, China), Tingda Lin (Ningde, China) and Chao Wang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle secure start method applicable to an electronic control unit of a vehicle includes, after the vehicle is powered on, signing stored first firmware based on a preset symmetric encryption algorithm and a symmetric key to obtain a first signature value, comparing the first signature value with a stored second sig...