Patents by Inventor Alan Grau

Alan Grau has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for detecting, blocking and reporting cyber-attacks against automotive electronic control units
    Patent number: 11411917
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to protecting automotive electronic control units from cyber-attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Sectigo, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Grau
  • Secure Key Storage Systems Methods And Devices
    Publication number: 20210409196
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to systems and methods for obfuscating keys. In one step the system divides a storage root key into at least two chunks. In another step the system processes each of the at least two chunks with at least one obfuscation algorithm to create at least two obfuscated chunks. In a further step the system stores each of the at least two obfuscated chunks in a storage file. In a further step, user keys are encrypted with the storage root key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Alan Grau
  • Devices, Systems, And Methods For Providing Security To IoT Networks And Sensors
    Publication number: 20210367775
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method for performing secure boot for IoT sensors where the verification process is done collaboratively between the sensor and the gateway. Further, a method of performing secure updates for IoT sensors where the verification process is done on the gateway. A method of authenticating an IoT sensor with an IoT gateway in which a first method of authentication is used upon first installing a device and occasionally thereafter and a second method is used for transactional communication. Still further, a method of computing an encryption key from a seed value that utilizes information specific to the sensor to create an encryption key unique to that sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Alan Grau
  • Method For Detecting, Blocking and Reporting Cyber-Attacks Against Automotive Electronic Control Units
    Publication number: 20200287872
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to protecting automotive electronic control units from cyber-attacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Alan Grau
  • Method for detecting, blocking and reporting cyber-attacks against automotive electronic control units
    Patent number: 10666615
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to protecting automotive electronic control units from cyber-attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Sectigo, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Grau
  • Method For Detecting, Blocking and Reporting Cyber-Attacks Against Automotive Electronic Control Units
    Publication number: 20180205703
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to protecting automotive electronic control units from cyber-attacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Alan Grau
  • Method and apparatus for channel management in a communication system
    Patent number: 6044090
    Abstract: A communications controller (132) transfers communication links from a first receiver (144) to a second receiver (146) when a system quality parameter exceeds a threshold. The first receiver (144) is used to perform idle carrier scanning by tuning to each idle carrier and executing a quality metric measuring procedure for the carrier or a channel on the carrier. The quality metrics are stored in memory (160) and the idle carriers are ranked according to their corresponding quality metrics. The communication controller (132) adds or replaces carriers based on their ranking. In this manner, communication channels may be more efficiently managed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Grau, William Hanks, Jannet Shaw