US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 9 for "Security key distribution" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,163, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Security key distribution" was invented by Jacob David Nelson (Westland, Mich.), Dikshitha Naidu Changala Raya (Dublin, Calif.), Jochen Schubert (Westland, Mich.), Cameron Smyth (Wyandotte, Mich.), Kevin Thomas Hille (Plymouth, Mich.) and Antony Mihalopoulos (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communications between computing devices connected via a network can be secured with digital keys (e.g., encryption keys). The key may be updated based on states of a state machine. The computing device may receive a key update command to update a k...