ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,786, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Checking a license for the usage of at least one performance property in an internet-of-things (IoT) device" was invented by Martin Wimmer (Neubiberg, Germany), Rainer Falk (Erding, Germany), Stefan Seltzsam (Aying, Germany) and Sebastian Ries (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking a license for the usage of at least one performance property in an Internet of things device, is provided, having the steps of -ascertaining at least one license condition for the usage of the performance property of the IoT device by at least one attribute conta...