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Industrial automation manufacturing with NFTs and smart contracts

Grant US12580779B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventors

Kenneth W. Batcher, Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam, Juergen Weinhofer, Timothy S. Biernat, David A. Vasko

Abstract

Industrial blockchain enabled automation control (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For example, a system can comprise: a memory that stores executable components, a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising: a contract component that determines whether a product generated using industrial automation equipment satisfies a defined condition of a smart contract, and an execution component that, in response to product being determined to satisfy the defined condition, executes a defined term of the smart contract.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 20/065 G06Q 20/401

Filing Date

2022-09-28

Application No.

17936126

Claims

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