ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,796, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to STMicroelectrionics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Electronic control unit adapted to intelligent transport system communications and corresponding method" was invented by Laurent Tabaries (Aubagne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electronic control unit includes a communication circuit adapted to receive intelligent transport system messages, an authentication circuit designed to authenticate the received messages, a non-volatile memory configured to record the authenticated received messages, and a secure element. The secure element includes a blacklist of automatically excluded ...