US Patent Issued to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES on May 27 for "Tire pressure monitoring system sensor authentication" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,082, issued on May 27, was assigned to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Attleboro, Mass.).

"Tire pressure monitoring system sensor authentication" was invented by John Paul J. P. McGrotty (Newtownabbey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) sensor authentication are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle receives a first radio frequency (RF) transmission that includes TPMS data and a first signature value. In this particular embodiment, the ECU uses a key value to generate a second signa...