US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 15 for "Modular measuring unit and authentication apparatus for detecting energy output" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,393, issued on July 15, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Modular measuring unit and authentication apparatus for detecting energy output" was invented by Sebastian Bode (Ahlen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a modular measuring unit comprising a measuring module and an access module. The measuring module and the access module are connected via an interface internal to the measuring unit. The defined interface guarantees modular isolation of the measuring module for the determination of a measured data item from the access module for generating a measuring data set with assignment of an identific...