ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,439, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for identifying a manipulated control device of a bus system" 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 a manipulated controller of a bus system of a vehicle is disclosed herein. The method includes transmitting a first message via the bus system by means of a first controller, and receiving the first message via the bus system by means of a second controller. The method further...