ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,498, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle network system and message transmission and reception method thereof" was invented by Ho Jin Jung (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message transmission and reception method includes determining whether a message identifier (ID) of an encoded message exists in a blocking table for blocking messages when receiving the encoded message from a first controller, and transmitting the encoded message to the second controller when the message ID of the encoded message does not exist in the blocki...