ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,912, issued on July 15, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Secure provisioning of devices in industrial automation systems" was invented by Dirk Schulz (Meckenheim, Germany), Soeren Finster (Karlsruhe, Germany), Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany) and Thomas Gamer (Bruhl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securely supplying data to be used in parameterizing a device for an industrial automation system includes a first party supplying a second party with a machine-readable standardized container for the exchange of device parameters in industrial automation systems, wherein the supplying comprises w...