US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on May 13 for "Controller area network traffic flow confidentiality" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,088, issued on May 13, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Controller area network traffic flow confidentiality" was invented by Alexander Zeh (Munich) and Laurent Heidt (Sauerlach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter device of a bus-based communication system may add one or more padding bits, associated with providing traffic flow confidentiality for communication of a payload on a communication bus, either to the payload on a transport layer, or to one or more first frames on a data link layer. The one or more first frames may include a transport layer payload associated with the payload...