ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,561, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Method for securing authentication of a device by a microcontroller" was invented by Jeremy Pasquier (Rieux, France), Bertrand Danet (Toulouse, France) and Jean-Christophe Seguy (Grenade, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for securing authentication of a device (2) by a microcontroller (11) comprising an electronic chip (111), comprising at least one pin (1111-A), called the "free" pin, not connected to any of the leads (112) of the microcontroller (11) and generating a noisy signal that is not a...