US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 18 for "Method for preventing identity theft for a specific electronic control unit of a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,818, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for preventing identity theft for a specific electronic control unit of a motor vehicle" was invented by Jean-Philippe Boisset (Toulouse, France), Mounir Elorch (Toulouse, France) and Abir Bourounia (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing identity theft for a specific electronic control unit of a motor vehicle, when the specific electronic control unit sends a plaintext message, which contains measurement data, to a central electronic control unit of the motor vehicle. The method includes: gen...