US Patent Issued to Innova Electronics on May 12 for "Secure access to vehicle electronic control unit (ECU)" (Null, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,496, issued on May 12, was assigned to Innova Electronics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Secure access to vehicle electronic control unit (ECU)" was invented by Phuong Pham (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Keith Andreasen (Garden Grove, Calif.), Ly Bach (Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam), Khanh Le (Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam) and Hoang Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of supporting secure access to an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle may comprise receiving, from a diagnostic tool connected to the vehicle, encrypted data including an ECU address corresponding to the ECU, vehicle identification informat...