ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,202, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for anonymously transmitting data" was invented by Lisa Kranz (Boblingen, Germany), Haifa Ben Salem (Stuttgart, Germany), Benjamin Nepp (Boblingen, Germany), Holger Glemser (Stuttgart, Germany), Michael Imhof (Aidlingen, Germany) and Martin Eisele (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is anonymously transmitted from a vehicle to a computer via a data link. The vehicle authenticates itself for the data transmission. The vehicle authenticates itself as a client in a token server by one or more authentication methods. The authe...