ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,186, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"System and method for secure and performant ECU pairing" was invented by Pradeep Pappachan (Pittsburgh), Jorge Guajardo Merchan (Pittsburgh), Christian Matthias Didong (Sinzig, Germany), Shalabh Jain (Pittsburgh) and Stefan Gehrer (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate to pairing a first electronic control unit (ECU) to a second ECU. First identification data of the first ECU is transmitted to the second ECU. Second identification data of the second ECU is received from the second ECU. After a request to pair, the first ECU receives...