ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,237, issued on June 23, was assigned to Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Method and system for securing SCADA and industrial control software through secure-write operations" was invented by Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Arshdeep Bahga (Chandigarh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of executing secure write operations within combined supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and programmable logic controller (PLC) systems including receiving an operator interaction at a user interface of a SCADA system, generating an encoded secure write instruction based on the operator interaction in a tampe...