ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,303, issued on June 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Electronic control unit, authentication method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing authentication program" was invented by Hideki Yakabe (Kariya City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By an electronic control unit, an electronic control system, an authentication method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an authentication program, an authentication request is acquired from a different device, a timing of execution of an authentication process according to the authentication request is randomly determined, the...