ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,614, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Detecting manipulated clients in a control system" was invented by Benjamin Lutz (Pfinztal, Germany) and Anna Palmin (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client-server architecture for a control system of a technical installation, wherein the client-server architecture includes at least one first device formed as a client and at least one second device that formed as a server assigned to the client, where the client is configured to establish contact with the server, and is configured to execute a code received from the server, communication from the client...