ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,610, issued on March 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Mitigation of a manipulation of software of a vehicle" was invented by Carsten Nobbe (Remchingen, Germany), Felix Hallaczek (Stuttgart, Germany), Joachim Graf (Gueglingen, Germany), Manuel Jauss (Wissgoldingen, Germany) and Marcel Kneib (Ingelheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method. The method includes recognizing the possibility of a manipulation of the software of a first component of a plurality of components of a vehicle electrical system of a vehicle in a central device for mitigating a manipulation of software. Th...