ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,523, issued on July 21, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).
"Handling of verification chains in the authentication of data streams" was invented by Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for checking a data stream on trustworthiness are described. According to an aspect, the data stream indicates, whether ...