ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,795, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Detroit).
"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, a plurality of second control modules, and a vehicle network. The vehicle network communicatively couples the first control module and the second control modules. The first control module is programmed to generate an update command including a plurality of authentication keys and transmit the updat...