US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 5 for "Autonomous vehicle sensor security, authentication and safety" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,226, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle sensor security, authentication and safety" was invented by Thomas Kilbride (San Francisco) and Lucas Duffey (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes sending, by a processing device to a sensor component of a sensing system of an autonomous vehicle (AV), a request to establish a session with the sensor component. The sensor component includes a sensor, a sensor controller and a first cryptographic coprocessor, and the processing device includes a second cryptographic coprocessor operatively coupled to a hardware...