ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,234, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Transmission of authentication keys" was invented by Venkata Kishore Kajuluri (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Jacob David Nelson (Westland, Mich.) and Cameron Smyth (Wyandotte, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a first control module. The first control module is programmed to generate an update command including a plurality of authentication keys and a mapping associating the authentication keys with a plurality of second control modules transmit the update command over a vehicle network. The update command is functionally ...