US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on March 17 for "Industrial automation manufacturing with NFTs and smart contracts" (Ohio, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,779, issued on March 17, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Industrial automation manufacturing with NFTs and smart contracts" was invented by Kenneth W. Batcher (Hudson, Ohio), Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam (Twinsburg, Ohio), Juergen Weinhofer (Chagrin, Ohio), Timothy S. Biernat (Franklin, Wis.) and David A. Vasko (Hartland, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Industrial blockchain enabled automation control (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For example, a system can comprise: a memory that stores executable components, a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that exe...