US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 8 for "Denial of service response to the detection of illicit signals on the in-vehicle communication network" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,378, issued on April 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Denial of service response to the detection of illicit signals on the in-vehicle communication network" was invented by TsengChan Stephan Huang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle communication network of a vehicle is monitored. An illicit signal is detected on the in-vehicle communication network. Whether the illicit signal satisfies a threshold severity condition is determined. A denial of service (DoS) operation with respect to at least part of the in-vehicle communication network is performed responsive to determining that the i...