ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,088, issued on April 7, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxborough, Mass.).
"Security co-engineering" was invented by Zakarya Drias (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system of securely delivering a digital file from a provider to an industrial control system. A provider node creates a blockchain contract having metadata relating to the digital file to be delivered and deploys the blockchain contract to a blockchain network for verification. A plurality of other provider nodes, serving as miners, verifies and validates the blockchain contract. If the verification is successful, the blockchain netwo...