US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on Feb. 18 for "Securing access to privileged functionality in run-time mode on remote terminal unit" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,242, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Securing access to privileged functionality in run-time mode on remote terminal unit" was invented by Philip Aubin (Kanata, Canada) and Salih Utku Karaaslan (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mode selector permits deactivating a run-time operational mode and activating a privileged operational mode on a remote terminal unit (RTU). One or more functionalities associated with the privileged operational mode are performed via a local and/or a remote computing device communicatively coupled to the RTU. The functionalities include at least...