US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Nov. 18 for "Authentication/authorization framework for a process control or automation system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,973, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Authentication/authorization framework for a process control or automation system" was invented by Antonio Ubach (Round Rock, Texas), Narayanan Doraiswamy (Round Rock, Texas), Sean Hernandez (Round Rock, Texas), Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas), Sireesha Dakoju (Round Rock, Texas), Krishna Joshi (Round Rock, Texas) and Matthew Villarrubia (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An architecture supporting a process control or automation system may include an authentication service which determines whether an entity (e.g., a human, aut...