ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,166, issued on May 5, was assigned to Bundesdruckerei GmbH (Berlin).

"Creation of a cryptographically secure electronic identity" was invented by Frank Dietrich (Berlin) and Matthias Schwan (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes performing a remote security inspection of the security infrastructure of a mobile device by a personalization server over a network; receiving a result of the inspection; upon a positive result of the inspection, sending a key generation request of a provisioning component of the ID application program to a security element of the mobile device; in response to the key generation request, ge...