ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,823, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Methods and systems for providing data from an internal data processing system of an industrial plant to an external data processing system" was invented by Jan-Gregor Fischer (Zorneding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data are sent from an internal data processing system of an Industrial plant to an external data processing system of the industrial plant by generating with an industrial edge device data packets from data related to an industrial machine, and generating therefrom signed data packets signed with a first digital signature. While the signed data packe...