US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for trustworthy provision of data elements and method for checking a dataset with a plurality of data elements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,863, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for trustworthy provision of data elements and method for checking a dataset with a plurality of data elements" was invented by Tiago Gasiba (Munich), Jorge Ricardo Cuellar Jaramillo (Baierbrunn, Germany) and Santiago Reinhard Suppan (Maxhuette-Haidhof, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses relate to transferring user-specific data that can be validated via a hash tree. If not all of the underlying data of the hash tree is transferred, then in place of the non-transferred data, a suitable hash value fro...