US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on March 17 for "Method for securely negotiating symmetrical keys between two participants in a communication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,746, issued on March 17, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for securely negotiating symmetrical keys between two participants in a communication" was invented by Viktor Friesen (Karlsruhe, Germany), Viktor Pavlovic (Stuttgart, Germany) and Philipp Weber (Tauberbischofsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securely negotiating symmetrical keys between at least two participants of a communication involves each of the participants being equipped in pairs with a common secret or can be equipped indirectly via a further participant, which respectively shares a common secret with each...