US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Jan. 13 for "Decentralized network discovery for industrial control systems" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,205, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Decentralized network discovery for industrial control systems" was invented by Harshal S. Haridas (Jamison, Pa.), Lonnie Walker (West Chester, Pa.), Doreen West (Dresher, Pa.) and Nofal Aamir (Collegeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for discovering and displaying a graphical representation of a plurality of network devices connected to a communication network comprises a control network module coupled to the plurality of network devices. A first component of a control network module captures attribute data from th...