ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,857, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VicOne Corp. (Tokyo).

"Adaptive network threat detection in distributed automotive execution environments of connected vehicles" was invented by Yi-Li Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Kang Lu (Taipei, Taiwan), Zhi-Wei Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Ting Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) has detection probes and detection hubs that are deployed onboard a connected vehicle and a detection correlation backend that is deployed on the cloud. A detection probe receives raw packets of network traffic of a communication network of the conn...