US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Data security through temporary value translation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,856, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Data security through temporary value translation" was invented by Edward Allen Cain Jr. (Plano, Texas), Adam Loyd Parker (Dallas) and Jonathan S. Burnham (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request to compile a software application, identifying one or more dummy values which were previously stored in source code of the software application, translating the one or more dummy values into source code using one or more secret values stored i...