US Patent Issued to VDV eTicket Service on Sept. 22 for "Method and control device for securely checking an electronic ticket" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,680, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VDV eTicket Service GmbH & Co. KG (Cologne, Germany).

"Method and control device for securely checking an electronic ticket" was invented by Joseph Lutgen (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a secure check of an electronic ticket, in which the electronic ticket is stored on a first mobile terminal device allocated to an end consumer, and the ticket is checked using a second terminal device allocated to a ticket inspector or to a control system, wherein the method the following steps: sending a request message from the second terminal device to the first terminal devi...