US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on July 21 for "Industrial automation system with certificate based cryptographic feature licensing" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,509, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Industrial automation system with certificate based cryptographic feature licensing" was invented by Diane E. Golden (West Allis, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include one or more memory devices storing instructions executed by one or more processors. The one or more processors can receive a public key of a device of an industrial automation system corresponding to a private key of the device. The one or more processors can receive a request to grant the device a license to enable a feature of the device or acce...