US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Aug. 19 for "Sufficiently secure controller area network" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,471, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Sufficiently secure controller area network" was invented by Mert Dieter Pese (Howell, Mich.) and Kang G. Shin (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As automotive security concerns are rising, the Controller Area Network (CAN)-the de facto standard of in-vehicle communication protocol-has come under scrutiny due to its lack of encryption and authentication. Several vulnerabilities, such as eavesdropping, spoofing, and replay attacks, have shown that the current implementation needs to be extended. Both academic and commer...