ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,090, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Devices and methods for authentication" was invented by Thomas Poeppelmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises a receive device which is designed to receive a data packet from a communication partner. The device comprises a data processing device which is configured to process the data packet in order to obtain a secret (e.g. predetermined) value. The device further comprises a transmit device which is designed to transmit a transmit message comprising information based on the secret value to the communication partner. The de...