ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,556, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for logging an authorized user in to a device, in particular to a device for a power generation plant, and power generation plant with device" was invented by Marek Seeger (Bovenden, Germany), Stefan Borger (Kassel, Germany), Dirk Schlote (Kassel, Germany), Jens Klein (Gottingen, Germany), Raimund Thiel (Bad Zwesten, Germany), Mirko Wischer (Bad Hersfeld, Germany) and Ingo Hanke (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for logging a user into a device for a power generation plant, using a service gateway, wherein an access...