US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Method and system for validating security of a vehicle" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,234, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method and system for validating security of a vehicle" was invented by Yi Wang (Singapore) and Vijayaraj Suriyakumar (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cryptography is used to validate the security of a vehicle. An authentication system integrated in a zone master Electronic Control Unit (ECU) of a predefined zone requests pre-allocated signed unique cryptographic key shares from each of multiple primary ECUs associated with the zone master ECU, when there is an authentication requirement. Thereafter, the authentication sy...