US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for operating a secure data communication between functional units for a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,537, issued on April 22, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for operating a secure data communication between functional units for a vehicle" was invented by Christian Kraemer (Knittlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a data communication between functional units for a vehicle, in which a predefined number of data packets transmitted by a sending unit to a receiving unit is collected in a data buffer of the sending unit to generate a data block. In each predefined time step, one data packet is transmitted, in which the data packets are collecte...