ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,321, issued on March 11, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method for authenticating messages in resource limited systems" was invented by Dacfey Dzung (Wettingen, Switzerland) and Thanikesavan Sivanthi (Wurenlingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for message authentication, in particular in case of low of transmission or storage capacities. The present invention further provides corresponding devices for generating or sending authenticated messages and for receiving or retrieving authenticated messages as well as a system comprising such devices. In an emb...