ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,742, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Elektrobit Automotive GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Customization of a processing unit to protect against unauthorized remote-code execution" was invented by Peter Asemann (Sindelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit is customized to prevent remote code execution of the processing unit. In a first step, a permutation of an instruction set of the processing unit is determined. Adaptations of the processing unit for implementing the permutation of the instruction set are then determined. Finally, the processing unit is customized in accordance with the determined adaptatio...