US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on July 28 for "Security method and security device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,117, issued on July 28, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Security method and security device" was invented by Kaoru Yokota (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a security method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, when a fraudulent command is detected in an in-vehicle communication network, an electronic control unit (ECU) which can transmit a fraudulent command is specified, the specified ECU is caused to execute update of the software used by the specified ECU, and execution of update of the software by the specified ECU is prohibited after the update of the softwar...