ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,532, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VISION MARINE TECHNOLOGIES (Boisbriand, Canada).

"Cryptographic authentication of components in an electric vessel" was invented by Xavier Montagne (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure, various methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for cryptographic authentication of components in an electric vessel are described herein. In some aspects, a first device of a plurality of vessel powertrain components receives a first authentication message from a second device of the plurality of vessel powertrain components via a control a...