ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,666, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DIEBOLD NIXDORF SYSTEMS GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Forensics module and integrated system" was invented by Volker Krummel (Paderborn, Germany), Peter Guenther (Bielefeld, Germany) and Gennadij Liske (Herford, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a forensics module (250) for an embedded system may comprise: a firewall (612); an interface (208) for communicating with an embedded system (150); at least one memory area (202s) secured by means of a firewall (612) and/or separated from the interface, comprising first data implementing a reference key; one or more th...