US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 1 for "Method and system for network segment isolation with variable configurations in a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,405, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for network segment isolation with variable configurations in a vehicle" was invented by Brian Farrell (Troy, Mich.), Mohamed A. Layouni (Fraser, Mich.) and Michael Potts (Lenox Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a network within the vehicle that includes a microcontroller unit (MCU) located within the vehicle, which includes an internal ethernet switch and an auxiliary core manager, where the MCU hosts one or more software builds and the auxiliary core manager manages the internal ethernet swi...