ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,128, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Chengdu Kawa Technology Co. Ltd (Sichuan, China).

"In-vehicle network OTA security communication method and apparatus, vehicle-mounted system, and storage medium" was invented by Xi Chen (Sichuan, China), Xuming Zheng (Sichuan, China), Yongbo Wu (Sichuan, China) and Jianping Shuang (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an in-vehicle network OTA security communication method and apparatus, a vehicle-mounted system. According to the present disclosure, the temporary key is generated through the random numbers and the root key in the in-vehicle network, integrity check is pe...