US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on Jan. 13 for "Multi-factor authentication of industrial assets" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,516, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Multi-factor authentication of industrial assets" was invented by James Redmond (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-factor authentication method and system enabling secure access to an industrial asset. A higher level of authentication to access a selected privileged operation of the industrial asset requires verification of two or more multi-factor access credentials."

The patent was filed on March 28, 2022, under Application No. 17/705,838.

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