ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,271, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"System, method and program for an industrial control system having assets that require different authentication and authorization levels for access" was invented by Takashi Ogura (Tokyo), Junya Fujita (Tokyo), Mitsuaki Ishiba (Tokyo) and Toshihiko Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication and authorization system acquires an authentication and authorization request for requesting authentication and/or authorization when a request source asset requests a request destination asset to perform predetermined processing, analyzes the authentication and auth...