ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,167, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SOFTWARE DEFINED AUTOMATION GMBH (Garching bei Munchen, Germany).

"Secure remote access for cloud-based industrial automation" was invented by Philipp Roll (Munich), Philip Ketterer (Munich) and Lucas De Camargo Souza (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for establishing a secure remote access, SRA, connection between a cloud computing system, CCS, and an industrial automation system, IAS, the method comprising: receiving, by an SRA server component of the CCS, a first SRA connection establishment message from a first SRA client of the CCS or from a se...