US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 5 for "Secure user authentication for medical device consoles" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,702, issued on May 5, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Secure user authentication for medical device consoles" was invented by Heather Moulton (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Jim Sievert (Bradenton, Fla.), Jeffry V. Marshik (New Brighton, Minn.) and Matthew J. Edelman (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure authentication scheme for a field service technician to access a device like a medical device in the field is provided. The system is arranged to authenticate an encrypted credential list using a public key from a public/private key pair and to authenticate a user to a device via SSH with...