US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Dec. 23 for "Software update of edge devices over one-way ethernet" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,968, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Software update of edge devices over one-way ethernet" was invented by Tianrui Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For security reasons, a one-way Ethernet communication link is implemented to segregate edge devices for an autonomous vehicle (AV) from the AV compute system. A non-feature rich backchannel allows very limited amounts of data to be transmitted from the edge devices side to the AV compute side. It is a challenge to query information about the edge devices when the backchannel only allows enumerated type data values to be ...