US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 20 for "Method and configurable hardware module for monitoring a hardware-application" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,001, issued on May 20, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and configurable hardware module for monitoring a hardware-application" was invented by Thomas Zeschg (Munich), Hans Aschauer (Munich), Rainer Falk (Poing, Germany), Christian Peter Feist (Munich), Aliza Maftun (Munich) and Hermann Seuschek (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Incoming and outgoing communication of a hardware-application component is monitored and controlled at runtime of the hardware-application component. In this way, a kind of firewall is provided for ensuring secure and un-altered operation of a hardware-application performing security-critical...