US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Secure update and audit of electronic control units" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,226, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Secure update and audit of electronic control units" was invented by John Cardillo (Windsor, Canada), Satya Meenakshi Raparthi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Vijayababu Jayaraman (Novi, Mich.) and Jason Michael Miller (Woodhaven, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle ECU receives an ECU update package from a remote source. The ECU verifies a first timestamp included with the ECU update package postdates a second timestamp stored onboard the vehicle in conjunction with a last-successful update of the ECU and obtains a unique vehicle identifie...