US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Aug. 25 for "Apparatus and method for detecting an abnormal ECU in a vehicle network" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,377, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for detecting an abnormal ECU in a vehicle network" was invented by Hae Yun Kwon (Incheon, South Korea) and Yong Joon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for detecting an abnormal ECU in a vehicle network are provided. The apparatus detects an abnormal ECU with high accuracy by storing status information of a vehicle and status information of the vehicle network, determining an activation maintenance time of the vehicle network based on status info...