ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,605, issued on July 22, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Requesting a certificate in a documented manner using a registration point" was invented by Martin Rauch (Mering, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for requesting certificates for a user in a documented manner, comprising at least one registration point, a logging device, and a certification point which are configured to carry out the following steps: receiving in the registration point a certificate request for issuing a certificate to a user, transmitting a logging message which contains information on the certificate request from the registrati...