ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,202, issued on March 25, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for configuring industrial devices through a secured wireless side channel" was invented by Mallikarjun Kande (Solon, Ohio) and David Mielnik (Painesville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for configuring industrial devices through a secured wireless side channel may include a compute device. The compute device may have primary communication circuitry configured to communicate through a network and side channel communication circuitry configured to communicate through a wireless side channel that is different fro...