ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,722, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Data pipeline security model" was invented by Jordan C. Reynolds (Austin, Texas), John J. Hagerbaumer (Mequon, Wis.), Troy W. Mahr (Pleasant Prairie, Wis.), Thomas K. Jacobsen (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Giancarlo Scaturchio (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to industrial automation environments. More specifically, embodiments include systems and methods to detect malicious behavior in an industrial automation environment. In some examples, a security component g...