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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2018
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Tim S. Biernat, Franklin, WI (US);
Juergen K. Weinhofer, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Douglas J. Reichard, Fairview Park, OH (US);
Subbian Govindaraj, Solon, OH (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
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.