ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,975, issued on June 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Security device and methods of operating a security device" was invented by Joerg Syassen (Oberhausen, Germany), Avni Bildhaiya (Deisenhofen bei Muenchen, Germany), Andreas Graefe (Munich), Albrecht Mayer (Deisenhofen, Germany), Manuela Meier (Munich) and Viola Rieger (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a safety domain having a processing unit and a memory and is configured to provide at least one functionality and to implement one more safety measures for detecting faults. The safety domain is configured to transmit at least ...