US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 17 for "Accepting or rejecting a data message in a vehicle network" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,730, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Accepting or rejecting a data message in a vehicle network" was invented by Humberto Eduardo Franyie Quintana (Westland, Mich.), Daniel Aaron Zajac (Carleton, Mich.), Jiguo Song (Plymouth, Mich.) and Xin Ye (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed; the method may comprise: receiving, at each of a plurality of network computers, a security message from a gateway computer, wherein the security message identifies a current mode of the vehicle, wherein the current mode is indicative of a vehicle state; storing the...