US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 14 for "Control of an infrastructure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,708, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Control of an infrastructure" was invented by Christian Lemkemeyer (Munich) and Thomas Wursthorn (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an infrastructure by a motor vehicle includes the steps of: transmitting a request to perform a predetermined function from the motor vehicle to the infrastructure; transmitting a challenge from the infrastructure to the motor vehicle; generating a response by signing the transmitted challenge with a private key of the motor vehicle; transmitting the response from the motor vehicle to the infrastru...