US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Service-oriented architecture in a vehicle" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,192, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Service-oriented architecture in a vehicle" was invented by Francis Obiagwu (Warren, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a manager module, a node, and a wired vehicle communications network connecting the node and the manager module. The manager module is programmed to receive a request to publish or subscribe to a message topic from the node; authenticate the node using the request; authorize the node by verifying that the node is on a permission list for the message topic; and upon authenticating and authorizing the...