ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,135, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for authenticating data" was invented by Viktor Friesen (Karlsruhe, Germany), Albert Held (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Viktor Pavlovic (Nufringen, Germany) and Philipp Weber (Tauberbischofsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data transmitted in a system having at least three instances is authenticated between two of these instances. Some of the instances implement an authentication mechanism so that a first instance can authenticate itself to a neighboring instance trusting the first instance. The data to be transmitted by the first instanc...