ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,240, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Authenticating a communication partner on a device" was invented by Rainer Falk (Poing, Germany) and Steffen Fries (Baldham, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a communication partner on a device is provided, in which method, in addition to a physical device implementation, there is at least one virtual device implementation allocated to the device, the method having the following steps: -receiving an access authorization of a communication partner in one first of these two device implementations, -checking, by the first device implementatio...