US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 27 for "Method of detecting an interference source in an industrial facility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,976, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method of detecting an interference source in an industrial facility" was invented by Vincenzo Fiorentino (Nuremberg, Germany) and Siegfried Richter (Lauf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a malicious interference source in a wireless network in an industrial facility includes receiving network quality information from a plurality of network devices, detecting a degradation in a section of the network based on the network quality information from at least one network device, determining a geographical area associated with the section of the netwo...