ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,946, issued on May 12, was assigned to Diebold Nixdorf Systems GmbH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Forensics module and embedded 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 secured memory area (202s) comprising first data implementing a key (305s); an interface (208) for reading (301) second data (302) representing a system state of the embedded system (150); and one or more than one processor (204) configured to: read (301) th...