ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,725, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and system for remote verification of the integrity of a computer program in a computing unit to be checked" was invented by Marcel Kneib (Ingelheim, Germany), Friedrich Wiemer (Burgstetten, Germany) and Manuel Jauss (Wissgoldingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remote verification of the integrity of a computer program in a computing unit to be checked using a verification unit. The computer program is specified by a reference program code and is in the form of stored program code in the computing unit to be checked. The met...