US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on Aug. 5 for "Authentication of medical device computing systems by using metadata signature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,251, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Authentication of medical device computing systems by using metadata signature" was invented by Norbert Leinfellner (Livermore, Calif.), Joseph Edwin Inase Manakkil (San Ramon, Calif.) and Paolo Pochendorfer (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer code embedded in an electronic component a medical device, such as a dialysis machine, can be authenticated by comparing a metadata signature derived from the computer code of the electronic component to a key derived from a pre-authenticated code associated with the electronic ...