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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2024
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jacob David Nelson, Westland, MI (US);
Dikshitha Naidu Changala Raya, Dublin, CA (US);
Jochen Schubert, Westland, MI (US);
Cameron Smyth, Wyandotte, MI (US);
Kevin Thomas Hille, Plymouth, MI (US);
Antony Mihalopoulos, Saline, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Communications between computing devices connected via a network can be secured with digital keys (e.g., encryption keys). The key may be updated based on states of a state machine. The computing device may receive a key update command to update a key value. In response to the key update command, the computing device may update the key value upon determining that the computing device is in a first state based on state data defining the first state, the state data including the key value, a machine mode specifying a current operating environment, and a lock value specifying that memory storing the key value is one of locked or unlocked.