US Patent Issued to Siemens on Dec. 2 for "Method for arranging a shared cryptographic key and method for encrypted communication, computer program product and device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,609, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for arranging a shared cryptographic key and method for encrypted communication, computer program product and device" was invented by Fabrizio De Santis (Munich) and Pascale Boffgen (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for arranging a shared cryptographic key with a communication partner. The method may include: selecting a first point of a first elliptic curve; sending the first point to the communication partner using a public channel; receiving a second point of the first elliptic curve from the communi...