ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,087, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Secure communication between information technology network and operational technology network" was invented by Atul Bassi (Bangalore, India), Tarun Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Anubhav Misra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for secure communication between an operational technology (OT) network and an information technology (IT) network are described. In one aspect, for secure communication, a data diode comprising a transmitting end and a receiving end to facilitate unidirectional communication between a source networ...