US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 14 for "Method, authentication means and authorization device for authorizing a charging process" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,231, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method, authentication means and authorization device for authorizing a charging process" was invented by Sebastian Bode (Ahlen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for authorizing a charging process at a charging point. The method may include: establishing a near field interface between an authentication means and the charging point; transmitting a user identification signed using a signature key via the near field interface and authenticating by checking the signed user identification; reconciling a pluralit...