ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,521, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic control unit, communication apparatus, and access administration system" was invented by Hisataro Iinami (Tokyo), Hironori Ooshima (Tokyo), Takuya Yokohashi (Tokyo) and Kenji Kaniwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit to be applied to a vehicle includes at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to: store a public key; receive a role list to set a specific work permitted to be executed by the at least one electronic control unit from a communication apparatus; perform signature verif...