ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,401, issued on June 10, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Industrial blockchain enabled automation control" was invented by Kenneth W. Batcher (Hudson, Ohio), Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam (Twinsburg, Ohio), Juergen 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: "Industrial blockchain enabled automation control (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For example, a system can comprise: a memory that stores executable components, a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executabl...