ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,855, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Key indication protocol" was invented by Alexander Zeh (Munich) and Donjete Elshani Rama (Unterhaching, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node may receive a control plane message. The control plane message may include an indication that the control plane message is a control plane message, an indication that the control plane message is associated with security, an indication of a security key to be associated with a secure zone (SZ) of an in-vehicle communication network, and an indication of a freshness value. The network node may p...