ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,278, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).
"Transport component authentication" was invented by Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, Texas), Edward Allen Cain Jr. (Plano, Texas) and Stephen Paul McFarland Jr. (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of sending data from a component on a transport to at least one other component on the transport in at least one location on a bus, comparing the data at the at least one other component to a threshold, and sending a notification, by the at least one other component, to a processor when the data is outside ...