ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,520, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VicOne Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection of abnormal operations in 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: "A connected vehicle has several electronic control units (ECUs). Entities running in different ECUs are constrained in corresponding security boundaries. Messages across security boundaries are transmitted over a connection that is not directly available to entities constrained in security boundaries. Messages across security boundaries between enti...