ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,666, issued on May 5, 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 Nicolas Guinart (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a central unit communicating with peripheral units performing measurements, using a server device, each peripheral unit generates a shared encryption key, the server device generates a temporary session key and the same shared encryption key, then performs a first encryption in order to form ...