US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Oct. 27 for "Securing remote requests to vehicles" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,916, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Securing remote requests to vehicles" was invented by Brian Farrell (Troy, Mich.), Jordan P. Rivington (Essex, Canada) and Karl B. Leboeuf (LaSalle, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a vehicle, a broker, and a back office. The broker receives from a requestor a token and a request for a mechatronics ECU in the vehicle to process a task. The back office receives the token and the request, confirms that the requestor is authorized to send the request, generates a MAC for the request based on a key, generates a message protected...