US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Oct. 20 for "Method and control device for reliable on-board communication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,694, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and control device for reliable on-board communication" was invented by Kai Leingruber (Ravensburg, Germany), Christoph Stritt (Bad Waldsee, Germany), Matthias Stauber (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Georg Willmann (Markdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for secure on-board communication between components (2, 4) of a vehicle by way of a communication bus (6) of the vehicle. The method includes (S1) sending a message from a component (2; 4) to the communication bus (6), (S2) storing information of the message sent in the ...