ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,184, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for providing security to in-vehicle network" was invented by Seung Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seil Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Aram Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method of providing security to an in-vehicle network are provided. The method efficiently operates multiple detection techniques to maintain robustness against malicious message detection while increasing overall detection efficiency."

The patent was filed on Nov. 6, 2023, under Application No. 1...