US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Consuming device and method for authenticating a consumable component" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,143, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Consuming device and method for authenticating a consumable component" was invented by Armin Krieg (Graz, Austria), Christoph Saas (Munich) and Matthias Pichler (Wildon, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment, a consuming device is provided, comprising a power supply for an authentication chip of a consumable component, wherein the internal resistance of the power supply is variable, a detection device configured to capture information about an operating state of the authentication chip for a plurality of values...