ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,663, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Providing and installing digital certificates" was invented by Sangamesh Hebbalamath (Erlangen, Germany), Ivan Murphy (Baiersdorf, Germany), Michael Rommel (Erlangen, Germany) and Martin Siegmung (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a digital certificate to a device, comprises: receiving a device identification dataset, uniquely identifying the device; determining a key creation dataset including a certificate identifier, the certificate identifier being based on the device identification dataset; sending the key...