ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,826, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"System, vehicle, and method" was invented by Yuki Sakai (Tokyo), Yu Yoshii (Tokyo), Shoichi Ito (Tokyo), Ryosuke Horie (Tokyo) and Takato Fukuno (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of in-vehicle devices and having a function of determining abnormality of communication in the devices by authenticating a message including data, a first counter counted each time a power source is turned on, and a second counter incremented over time. The system includes an authentication unit for performing, when a message including control data to be ...