ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,332, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RENAULT S.A.S (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa-ku, Japan).

"Method for verifying the authenticity of an actuator command" was invented by Marc Peresse (Cedex Guyancourt, France) and Redouane Soum (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying the authenticity of a command from an actuator controlled by an electronic control unit connected to a multimedia system including: a touch-sensitive display to receive a user command to display information relating to the actuator command, an operating system to enable an external communication ...