US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Message verification for vehicle ECUs" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,198, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Message verification for vehicle ECUs" was invented by Tim Richmond (Lake Linden, Mich.), Jacob David Nelson (Westland, Mich.), Cameron Smyth (Wyandotte, Mich.), Omar Fayad (Orland Park, Ill.), Jeremy L. Russell (Livonia, Mich.) and William David Treharne (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to nondeterministically select a message from a plurality of messages, the messages including respective message authentication codes; set...