ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,045, issued on May 27, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Industrial control system data tap and model for managing industrial control system" was invented by Justin Brock (Clermont, Fla.), Brian Walters (Groveland, Fla.), Nicholas Stantzos (Winter Gardens, Fla.), Christopher Hofer (Ocoee, Fla.), Mario Scarabino (Kissimmee, Fla.) and Michael Tschanz (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to a method, comprising: receiving tapped data that was tapped from a controller of an industrial control system (ICS) while the controller executed first control cod...