ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,318, issued on May 5, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"System for intrusion detection using a vehicle electrical system" was invented by Stefan Gehrer (Pittsburgh) and Jorge Guajardo Merchan (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor is programmed to define a fingerprint that includes a baseline measurement of a physical attribute of the system prior to runtime operation, wherein the system includes at least one set of non-safety critical consumer channels, one set of safety critical consumer channels, and two different power sources connected to two power channels, a first power source suppli...