ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,225, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for secure real-time message transmission between a transmitter and a receiver which are on board a motor vehicle" was invented by Mounir Elorch (Toulouse, France), Fabien Deleplanque (Toulouse, France) and Nicolas Guinart (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the secure transmission of messages in real time between a transmitter and a receiver that are housed on board a motor vehicle. The method includes at least a first step that is executed during a current driving cycle of the motor vehicle and c...