US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 16 for "Method and system for securely configuring a plurality of gateway controllers of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,409, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for securely configuring a plurality of gateway controllers of a vehicle" was invented by Dominik Reinhardt (Munich), Matthias Kessler (Munich), Paul Seybold (Munich) and Nicola Coretti (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for securely configuring a plurality of gateway controllers of a vehicle. A reception request is received from a client interface of a first gateway controller, signed with a private key of a server interface of a second gateway controller, and a transmission offer is transmitted from the serve...