US Patent Issued to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS on Aug. 19 for "Managing data protection settings for an electronic control unit" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,257, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Managing data protection settings for an electronic control unit" was invented by Jack Austin Doan (Addison, Texas) and Michael Lamunion (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs), and determines whether any of the ECUs are read/write protected. The vehicle includes control circuitry that is configured to determine a data protection setting for at least one ECU, generate a diagnostic code indicator based on the data protection setting, and generate a visual indicator based on the d...