ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,924, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lambda:4 Entwicklungen GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for detecting the time of the earliest reception of a signal change, in particular for measuring delay time or for defense against relay attacks" was invented by Ronne Reimann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to detecting the time of the earliest reception of a signal change. In particular, the method according to the invention allows early detection of the signal change, which significantly reduces the timespan available for an undetected relay attack and can thus prevent such an attack or at ...