ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,714, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Network monitoring system for operational technology devices" was invented by Chirag L. Malkan (Brookfield, Wis.), Yutao Wang (Brookfield, Wis.), Lee A. Lane (Medford, Mass.), Eric A. Norrod (Franklin, N.C.) and Jack M. Visoky (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this present disclosure include an industrial automation system, including an operational technology (OT) industrial automation device. The OT industrial automation device may perform an operation for the industrial automation system. Further, the OT ind...