ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,526, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Steven Yin Zhong (Singapore), Xinxing Yin (Shanghai) and Mingming Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method includes: a first electronic control unit (ECU) that obtains to-be-sent data. The first ECU determines a protection policy corresponding to the to-be-sent data from a plurality of protection policies, where the protection policies include a plurality of different encapsulation formats for the to-be-sent data and at least two protect...