ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,677, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Method to secure in-vehicle service oriented architecture with message authentication code (MAC) generate allow list (MGAL)" was invented by Brian Farrell (Troy, Mich.), Sherif Aly (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Karl Bernard Leboeuf (LaSalle, Canada) and Alfred F. Adams II (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a secure in-vehicle service oriented architecture with a MAC Generate Allow List includes receiving, at a secure environment, a request to transmit a message from a device. The request to transmit includes a request fo...