ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,672, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).
"User authentication in an industrial system" was invented by Henry Haverinen (Tampere, Finland), Eero Paajanen (Tampere, Finland), Jere Paavola (Tampere, Finland), Jarkko Holappa (Tampere, Finland) and Johannes Koskinen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods and computer programs for user authentication in an industrial system are disclosed. A first apparatus associated with an industrial system receives a user identifier uniquely associated with a user. The first apparatus derives a second symmetric cryptograp...