US Patent Issued to Deutsche Post on May 5 for "Method and apparatus for determining whether information authorizes access to a compartment of a compartment system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,162, issued on May 5, was assigned to Deutsche Post AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for determining whether information authorizes access to a compartment of a compartment system" was invented by Frank Helferich (Leubsdorf, Germany), Thilo Kirchheiner (GroB-Zimmern, Germany) and Thomas Baye (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method in which a hash value and a first piece of information are obtained from a second device. The hash value is associated with a compartment of the compartment system, and the first piece of information is associated with a first device. Further, a second piece of information...