ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,355, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH (Bayern, Germany).

"Method for securely replacing a first manufacturer certificate already introduced into a device" was invented by Hendrik Brockhaus (Unterbiberg, Germany) and Jens-Uwe BuBer (Neubiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for the secure replacement of a first manufacturer certificate already incorporated into a device with a second manufacturer certificate, having the steps: -identifying at least one specific device-related parameter that uniquely identifies the device and that is contained in the first manufacturer certificate an...