ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,702, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and terminal device for cryptographically secured transmission of data within a communication system" was invented by Hubert Hardes (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for cryptographically secured data transmission within a communication system, wherein terminal devices include a local certification instance which, when a terminal device is commissioned, generate a first key pair for the device and a request to create a certificate assigned to the key pair, and during protected operation of the terminal device, the request is transmitted to a h...