US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on March 18 for "Method for authentic data transmission between control devices of a vehicle, arrangement with control devices, computer program, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,985, issued on March 18, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for authentic data transmission between control devices of a vehicle, arrangement with control devices, computer program, and vehicle" was invented by Timo Winkelvos (Sickte, Germany) and Aljoscha Fernandez (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for authentic data transmission between control devices of a vehicle in which messages which are sent from a first control device to a receiver control device and are provided with a first cryptographic key for authentication, and messages that are sent from a second control...