ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,734, issued on July 22, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for identifying a manipulation of a message of a bus system 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 a message of a bus system using a control device of a vehicle. Th method includes receiving a first message from a first control device using the control device of the vehicle. The method a...