US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Dec. 30 for "One-way segregation of AV subsystems and user devices" (Pennsylvania, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,135, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"One-way segregation of AV subsystems and user devices" was invented by Christopher Valasek (Pittsburgh) and Charles Miller (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Malicious users (or hackers) can take advantage of user devices on or communicably connected to an autonomous vehicle (AV) to gain unauthorized access to AV subsystems (e.g., AV compute system, AV sensors, AV controls system, and AV cabin system). To address this concern, a one-way Ethernet communication link can be placed between the AV subsystems and the user devices. The one-way communicat...