US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 8 for "Communicating securely with devices in a distributed control system" (Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,866, issued on July 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Communicating securely with devices in a distributed control system" was invented by Jeffrey S. Gilton (Cincinnati), Douglas R. Nichols (Kentwood, Mich.), Mark E. Hingsbergen (Fairfield Township, Ohio) and Matthew B. Pfenninger (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises a server generating a server nonce and transmitting a server public key, a key signature and the server nonce to a device, the device verifying the server public key, signing the server nonce with a device private key, generating a device nonce, and transmitting the server...