ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,362, issued on March 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method for recording a number of events in an encoded tracer variable in a security-oriented computer program" was invented by Karl-Hermann Witte (Furth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device and computer program for recording a plurality of events in an encoded tracer variable in a security-oriented computer program, wherein each event is recorded as a value in the encoded tracer variable, where in order to simultaneously record multiple events from the values for the events, a total value is first calculated which is then recorded in the encoded tra...