ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,671, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Shared risk assessment and clustering for industrial IOT applications" was invented by Navdeep Sood (Bangalore, India) and Praveen Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method may access a plurality of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices within a network. The method may determine a shared risk model associated with the plurality of IIoT devices within the network. The method may determine, using the shared risk model, a shared risk value for each of the plurality of IIoT devices within the network. The metho...