US Patent Issued to General Electric, BAE Systems Controls on April 22 for "Methods and systems for starting secure communication in systems with high availability" (Ohio, Michigan, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,272, issued on April 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and BAE Systems Controls Inc. (Endicott, N.Y.).

"Methods and systems for starting secure communication in systems with high availability" was invented by Jeffrey S. Gilton (Cincinnati), Matthew B. Pfenninger (Cincinnati), Douglas R. Nichols (Kentwood, Mich.) and Russell Seidel (Endicott, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed control system includes an electronic control unit to establish secure communication with a distributed control module. Upon determination that a previously negotiated session key is stored on the electronic control unit, th...