US Patent Issued to Siemens on Sept. 23 for "Method for authenticating a user feature, and authentication device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,391, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for authenticating a user feature, and authentication device" was invented by Florian Krautwurm (Passau, Germany), Martin Metzker (Poing, Germany), Markus Lachenmayr (Bavaria, Germany), Tobias Appl (Nuremberg, Germany) and Robin Bollmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the anonymized confirmation of personal user features. A user authenticates the user features to be checked with a separate authentication device. The authentication with a service provider takes place by way of anonymized authentication information."

The pat...