ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,586, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatuses for authenticating a data stream" was invented by Rainer Falk (Poing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for generating a data stream, the transmitter of which is authenticated. The method includes calculating at least one first item of authentication information, wherein the at least one first item of authentication information is generated from a first item of validation information in each case using a cryptographic one-way function. The method includes storing the at least one first item of authentication information in a ...