US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Jan. 13 for "Method and system for detecting an interruption in a data transmission from a vehicle to a vehicle-external server" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,613, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for detecting an interruption in a data transmission from a vehicle to a vehicle-external server" 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 for detecting an interruption in a data transmission from a vehicle to a security-related function of a vehicle-external server includes receiving a data transmission of one or more control units of the vehicle using the security-related function of the vehic...