US Patent Issued to ETO MAGNETIC on March 4 for "Copy protection method and copy-protected electronic system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,735, issued on March 4, was assigned to ETO MAGNETIC GmbH (Stockach, Germany).

"Copy protection method and copy-protected electronic system" was invented by Sharang Deepak Parnerkar (Stockach, Germany) and Heike Grefe (Stockach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A copy protection method for an electronic system has one or more electronic units and one or more component which interacts with the electronic unit, in which or more one public-key infrastructure having one or more certification authority is used. The certification authority issues a first certificate for the electronic unit and a second certificate for the component, ...