ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,457, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Secure, efficient and reliable transmission of data in mission critical systems" was invented by Chad Andrew Lloyd (Old Hickory, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing data flowing from mission critical systems. Embodiments include receiving a plurality of data values to transmit to a remote system using a unidirectional data communications network. The data values are prioritized according to a plurality of priority levels and the prioritized plurality of data values are grouped into one or more data updates for each of the plurality...