US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 4 for "Dynamic adaptation of memory elements to prevent malicious attacks" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,761, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Dynamic adaptation of memory elements to prevent malicious attacks" was invented by Ameer Kashani (Southfield, Mich.), Gopalakrishnan Iyer (Santa Clara, Calif.), Carlos Mora-Golding (Southfield, Mich.) and Hirofumi Yamashita (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adaptable canary values. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring state information about a program executing within a vehicle. The state information specifies at least a security level of segments of the program. The method ...