ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,988, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NIGHTWING GROUP LLC (New York).

"In-vehicle network intrusion detection using unsupervised learning" was invented by Nandi O. Leslie (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for detecting anomalous or malicious processes based on in-vehicle network traffic data. A method includes receiving, at a monitor device, a controller access network (CAN) bus packet from an electronic control unit (ECU), implementing an ensemble hierarchical agglomerative clustering (E-HAC) algorithm to identify respective clusters to which the CAN bus data maps...