US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Nov. 11 for "Process control software security architecture based on least privileges" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,830, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Process control software security architecture based on least privileges" was invented by Lee Allen Neitzel (Austin, Texas) and Dan Halver Ussing (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process control system software security architecture, that is more effective at preventing zero-day or other types of malware attacks, implements the use of "least privileges" when executing the applications and services run within a computer device. The least privileges based architecture separates "service" processes from desktop applications tha...