ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,868, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sphinx Electronics GmbH & Co KG (Kenzingen, Germany).
"Method and system for starting up or managing an offline control device" was invented by Trong-Nghia Cheng (Freiburg, Germany), Reinhard Eggert (Schallstadt, Germany) and Pascal Bodechon (Ettenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of starting up and managing an offline control device with a management control unit and a terminal, includes: implementing of a multi-factor/ID authentication algorithm in the terminal; delivering the terminal and a first storage medium having a storage medium ID and a first security code to a cus...