ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,180, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Blockchain-enabled digital twins for industrial automation systems" was invented by Kenneth W. Batcher (Hudson, Ohio), Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam (Twinsburg, Ohio), Juergen K. Weinhofer (Chagrin, Ohio), Timothy S. Biernat (Franklin, Wis.) and David A. Vasko (Hartland, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Blockchain-enabled digital twins for industrial automation systems (e.g., using a computerized tool) are enabled. For example, a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, in response to exec...