ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,046, issued on July 14, was assigned to VicOne Corp. (Tokyo).

"Acceleration of threat assessment and remediation analysis (TARA) using countermeasures in automotive security" was invented by Yi-Hong Chu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat assessment and remediation analysis (TARA) modeling process includes a threat intelligence database, a threat scenario builder and a countermeasure advisor. An item definition is either a vehicle or an electronic control unit (ECU). If a vehicle, its features are extracted and are converted into an input feature vector. If ECU, its parameters are extracted and converted into an i...