US Patent Issued to SIEMENS SCHWEIZ on April 8 for "Method and arrangement for exchanging a domain registrar for authenticating and configuring digital certificates" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,507, issued on April 8, was assigned to SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG (Zurich).

"Method and arrangement for exchanging a domain registrar for authenticating and configuring digital certificates" was invented by Oskar Camenzind (Steinen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for exchanging a predecessor domain registrar for the authentication and configuration of digital certificates of IoT devices with a new registrar. The predecessor registrar and the devices are stored using a blockchain. The method may include: determining by the predecessor the number of nearby attestations needed; entering the new registrar into the blockchain...