ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,324, issued on March 11, was assigned to Loewenstein Medical Technology S.A. (Luxembourg).
"Authentication of a ventilator" was invented by Igor Bychkov (Ettlingen, Germany) and Matthias Schwaibold (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for authenticating at least one ventilator with at least one remote station, wherein the ventilator can connect itself via at least one interface to the remote station, at least one authentication file is stored on the ventilator, the authentication file contains at least one signature code of a signing authority, and a public keycode of the signing authority is known to the remote...