US Patent Issued to Deutsche Post on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for granting access to compartments of a compartment installation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,019, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Deutsche Post AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for granting access to compartments of a compartment installation" was invented by Frank Helferich (Leubsdorf, Germany) and Klaus Kiehne (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method in which a key is acquired; access information is generated; and the access information is encrypted with the key. Further, an indicator is associated with the access information and first data is output. The first data includes the access information encrypted with the key and the indicator. Third data is acquired from an apparatus having ...