US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on Aug. 11 for "Preparation of a control device for secure communication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,736, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Preparation of a control device for secure communication" was invented by Richard Gottschalk (Regensburg, Germany) and Andreas Rehberg (Nittendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a control device includes the following steps: generating, by the control device, a first asymmetric cryptographic key pair with a first private key and a first public key; transmitting the first public key to an external entity; generating, by the external entity, a second asymmetric cryptographic key pair with a second private key and a second public key; ...