US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Transport layer authenticity and security for automotive communication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,966, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Transport layer authenticity and security for automotive communication" was invented by Alexander Zeh (Munich), Vivin Richards Allimuthu Elavarasu (Munich) and Harald Zweck (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sender configured to participate in an in-vehicle network is configured to receive a request for transmitting a payload and generate, in response, a first header in a transport layer and/or a network layer. The sender is further configured to access a key of k bytes length and to generate an authentication tag using the key and at least ...