US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on April 22 for "Authentication method and apparatus for defending against attacks on UAM aircraft" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,179, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Authentication method and apparatus for defending against attacks on UAM aircraft" was invented by Young Bin Min (Busan, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method includes performing pilot authentication based on a first challenge-response process with an authentication server, transmitting first flight information to the authentication server, receiving a first authentication token provided in response to verification of the first flight information in ...