US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on Aug. 25 for "Sound-based user authentication for edge devices" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,865, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxborough, Mass.).

"Sound-based user authentication for edge devices" was invented by James Redmond (Richmond, Canada) and Zackery Sobin (Tryon, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system for an industrial plant is configured for authenticating a user device to either permit or deny the user device access to an industrial edge device. The authentication system broadly comprises the industrial edge device, the user device, and the authentication processor. The industrial edge device is configured for at least one of monitoring and controlli...