US Patent Issued to Cummins on July 1 for "Method and system for detecting intrusion in a vehicle system" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,534, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Method and system for detecting intrusion in a vehicle system" was invented by Sharika K. Kumar (Columbus, Ind.), Subhojeet Mukherjee (Columbus, Ind.), Howard Bishop (Columbus, Ind.), Christopher S. York (Greenwood, Ind.) and Andrew T. Hillery (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of improving security of a computing system having a network of embedded devices are disclosed. The method includes starting a timer of a predetermined length of time, obtaining an expected number of cyclic messages to be received within the predetermined l...