US Patent Issued to Vijay Madisetti on Dec. 9 for "Method and system for securing SCADA and industrial control software through secure-write operations" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,669, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Method and system for securing SCADA and industrial control software through secure-write operations" was invented by Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Arshdeep Bahga (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing secure write operations including receiving a secure write instruction at a programmable-logic controller (PLC), performing a validation operation on the secure write instruction at the PLC, rejecting the secure write instruction responsive to determining the secure write instruction is invalid, and responsive to determin...