ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,835, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method for securely operating a software component" was invented by Christian Knierim (Munich) and Christian Peter Feist (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating a software component is provided, having the steps of: retrieving deployment information for the software component, wherein the deployment information includes information on program parts of the software component and the runtime configuration thereof; checking whether at least one program part has a flaw and identifying the program part; determining a runtime limitation for the program par...