ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,578, issued on March 11, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Digital shadows for remote attestation of vehicle software" was invented by Robert M. Kaster (White Lake, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing vehicle software attestation. One system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) master included in a vehicle and a verifier system. The ECU master receives a digital shadow request generated by the verifier system and generates a digital shadow. The digital shadow is based on a unique, one-way identifier of a program memory space of the ECU master and a unique, one-way ident...