ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,423, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Communication device, vehicle, communication method, and recording medium recorded with program" was invented by Takahito Kiyokawa (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device including a reception section to receive from each of other communication devices a message appended with authentication information generated by the other communication device, an authentication section to, for each of the messages received by the reception section, authenticate the message based on the authentication information appended to the message, and ...