ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,868, issued on June 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI AUTOEVER CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling an ethernet switch for a vehicle" was invented by Hyun-Woo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Myung-Hyun Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Young-Tae Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling an Ethernet switch for a vehicle may include: a switch state detection unit configured to acquire a clock of an Ethernet switch; and a processor configured to determine whether the clock of the Ethernet switch detected by the switch state detection unit has been changed. In particular, the proc...