ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,983, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for identifying an inadmissible message of a manipulated control device of a vehicle by means of a second control device of the 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 for identifying an inadmissible message of a manipulated control device of a vehicle using a second control device includes receiving a first message of a first control device via a first bus system using the second con...