US Patent Issued to Siemens on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for granting access rights to control applications of an industrial automation system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,114, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for granting access rights to control applications of an industrial automation system" was invented by Peter Kob (Heroldsberg, Germany) and Maximilian Hoch (Adelsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for granting access rights to control applications of an industrial automation system, wherein first control applications are initially provided via software containers that are loaded into a container runtime environment installed on a host operating system, and executed there, the first control applications are monitored and configure...