ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,732, issued on June 16, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for authenticating a central unit connected to peripheral units using a secure server" was invented by Jean-Philippe Boisset (Montauban, France) and Stefan Abeling (Ulm, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating the rights of a central unit communicating with peripheral units carrying out measurements on the tires of the wheels of a motor vehicle to carry out sensitive operations thereon, using a secure external server that possesses their identifier. Each peripheral unit generating a random session c...