ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,116, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for securely equipping a vehicle with an individual certificate" was invented by Albert Held (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Viktor Friesen (Karlsruhe, Germany), Daniel Meidlinger (Schechingen, Germany) and Matthias Dettling (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method involves a vehicle certification authority and a control device certification authority having a respective infrastructure for public keys based on an asymmetric pain of is established. The respective private key remains in the certification authority and the public key is d...