US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Global on March 18 for "Method for setting up a data connection, and data transfer system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,957, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for setting up a data connection, and data transfer system" was invented by Philip Meyer-Rossler (Giesen, Germany) and Janik Ricke (Uetze, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for setting up a data connection between a terminal device of a telematics system in a vehicle and a central module of a stationary local area network (SLAN). The SLAN covers a depot. The method includes: providing access data for identifying and authenticating the terminal device in the SLAN, the access data being provided via an access network differ...