ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,684, issued on Oct. 14, 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 configuring local secure memory for a programmable logic controller (PLC) including verifying a content of the local secure memory by comparing the content of the local secure memory to a verification profile, initiating a secure recovery process responsive to unsuccessfully verifying the content of the local secure memory, and, r...