ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,221, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Secure automotive system" was invented by Ramasubbarao Velivela (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Electronic Control Unit (ECU) provides security for an automotive system. The ECU is classified according to a Cybersecurity Assurance Level (CAL) and calculates a cryptographic value for one or more or all modules of the ECU. The calculated cryptographic value is compared with a stored cryptographic value. Based on the CAL classification of the ECU, either control to one or more modules of the ECU is provided or the E...