ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,147, issued on May 19, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Secure message system and method of the same" was invented by Brian Farrell (Troy, Mich.) and Sherif Aly (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method that causes data processing hardware to perform operations including generating, at a first device, a message having a header including a message type and a service ID, receiving, at a second device, the message including the header and a key serial number (KSN) of the first device, determining, based on the header, the message type of the message, verifying, at ...