US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 13 for "IIoT cross-domain authentication using identity federated smart contracts" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,269, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"IIoT cross-domain authentication using identity federated smart contracts" was invented by Nikhil Ashok Patange (Pune, India), Francisco P Maturana (Lyndhurst, Ohio) and Krutika Kansara (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identity-federated smart contracts can be combined with an identity provider to provide uniform, customizable, secure, and immutable authentication across many different domains. Such can address the challenges of cross-domain authentication in the context of a decentralized environment such as a d...