ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,529, issued on July 29, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for scheduled policy deployment in operational technology networks" was invented by Roch Mikolajczyk (Katowice, Poland), Jack M. Visoky (Willoughby, Ohio) and Taryl J. Jasper (Concord Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An OT device includes a processor and a memory, accessible by the processor. The memory stores a first policy that includes a first set of settings associated with operation of the OT device. The memory also stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor ...