ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,269, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle data protection" was invented by David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Yashanshu Jain (Dearborn, Mich.) and Manvi Kamboj (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for protecting vehicle data from a vehicle includes identifying the vehicle data to be included in output from a processor that is designated for protection, selecting a digital watermark based on a manner in which the output is subject to at least one of observation or interception, applying the digital watermark to the vehicle data to obta...