ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,745, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for identifying a manipulation of an analogue signal by means of a control device of a vehicle, computer-readable medium, system, and vehicle" was invented by Michael Weiner (Munich), Peter Winklhofer (Munich), Robert Meinlschmidt (Munich), Theresa Reiner (Munich) and Markus Anton (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method identifies a manipulation of an analog signal by means of a control device of a vehicle. A series of messages are received from a bus system using the control device of the vehicle, wherein a message of the sequence of messages...