Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Managing blockchains in an industrial facility based on firmware change
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Application No.: US17150160Application Date: 2021-01-15
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Publication No.: US11809159B2Publication Date: 2023-11-07
- Inventor: Tim S. Biernat , Juergen K. Weinhofer , Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam , Douglas J. Reichard , Subbian Govindaraj
- Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OH Mayfield Heights
- Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Mayfield Heights
- Agency: Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Main IPC: G05B19/418
- IPC: G05B19/418 ; G05B19/4093 ; G06F16/27 ; G06F16/248 ; H04L9/32 ; H04L9/40

Abstract:
Blockchain-enabled industrial devices and associated systems are configured to support the use of industrial blockchains in connection with product and machine tracking, subscription-based industrial services, device lifecycle management, and other functions. Collections of industrial devices can collectively serve as an industrial blockchain system, with multiple such systems within a supply chain yielding an industrial blockchain ecosystem. This architecture can create distributed, decentralized, tamper-proof records of manufacturing statistics for a product, a product's history within the larger supply chain, industrial asset usage histories that can be leveraged in connection with lifecycle management, machine usage history for use in connection with subscription-based machine operation, and other such information. The blockchain-enabled industrial devices can be configured to generate multiple versions of a product or machine's blockchain having respective different access permissions, allowing public and private industrial data to be segregated between public and private industrial blockchains.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210132582A1 MANAGING BLOCKCHAINS IN AN INDUSTRIAL FACILITY Public/Granted day:2021-05-06
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