US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Jan. 28 for "Operator action authentication in an industrial control system" (Massachusetts, California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,577, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Operator action authentication in an industrial control system" was invented by Samuel Galpin (Nashua, N.H.), Timothy Clish (Taunton, Mass.), James G. Calvin (Attleboro, Mass.) and Albert Rooyakkers (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operator actions and/or other commands or requests are secured via an authentication path from an action originator to a communications/control module or any other industrial element/controller. In implementations, an industrial control system includes an action authenticator configured to sign an action requ...