US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on June 17 for "Devices and methods for authentication" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,413, issued on June 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Devices and methods for authentication" was invented by Thomas Poeppelmann (Munich) and Armin Krieg (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has a receiver designed to receive a data packet from a communication partner, a data processor to process the data packet in order to obtain a secret value, a transmitter designed to transmit a transmit message having information based on the secret value to the communication partner, and an authentication device designed to receive a challenge message and to use the secret value to create a re...