ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,725, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and HYUNDAI AUTOEVER Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for controlling secure boot of vehicle controller and system thereof" was invented by Hong Yeol Lim (Incheon, South Korea) and Bong Ju Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and a system for controlling a secure boot of a vehicle controller, when a first vehicle controller performs a normal boot as an error occurs in a parity bit of a firmware image, in the process of performing the secure boot by vehicle controllers related to auton...