US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 17 for "System for detecting a faulty ECU on a vehicle network and a method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,862, issued on March 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for detecting a faulty ECU on a vehicle network and a method thereof" was invented by Sun Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting a faulty electronic control unit (ECU) on a vehicle network are disclosed. The system includes a monitoring controller configured to detect an identification (ID) of a controller area network (CAN) message first transmitted on a vehicle network and transmit the ID of the CAN message to a gateway controller. The gateway controll...