ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,906, issued on April 15, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for checking an incoming secured, encrypted message" was invented by Gobinath Ramasamy Muthusamy (Heilbronn, Germany) and Martin Friedrich (Untergruppenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking an incoming message. In the method, based on the message authentication code, an authentication of the useful data is performed by a hardware security module and the hardware security module is subjected to a function check."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/650,474.

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