US Patent Issued to Siemens on Sept. 29 for "Interpreting and categorizing traffic on industrial control networks" (New Jersey, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,283, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Siemens Corp. (Washington).

"Interpreting and categorizing traffic on industrial control networks" was invented by Luis Humberto Rodriguez Jr. (Ridgefield, Conn.), Charif Mahmoudi (Montclair, N.J.) and Joseph Tylka (Pennington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tools can generate semantic information that indicates the purpose and contents of messages that are transmitted on a given network. In particular, for example, forensic tools described herein can discriminate between security issues, bugs, performance limitations, user errors, and the like."

The patent was filed on Aug. 11, 2022, u...