Patents by Inventor Nate Kube

Nate Kube has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Integrated unified threat management for a process control system
    Patent number: 9130980
    Abstract: A Unified Threat Management System (UTMS) for securing network traffic in a process control system may comprise network devices configured to receive network traffic related to the process control system and including a ruleset received from an external source. The ruleset may include one or more rules defining a condition to accept or deny the network traffic received at the network device. The state of the network device may be integrated into the process control system as a process control object or variable, thus allowing the state and other UTMS and component network device parameters and variables to be displayed to an operator at a workstation within a graphical process control system environment. The network devices may also communicate with a perpetual service that proactively supplies the devices with rulesets to meet the latest security threats, threat patterns, and control system vulnerabilities found or predicted to exist within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Keith Law, Nate Kube, Robert Kent Huba, Brandon Hieb, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Integrated unified threat management for a process control system
    Publication number: 20110072506
    Abstract: A Unified Threat Management System (UTMS) for securing network traffic in a process control system may comprise network devices configured to receive network traffic related to the process control system and including a ruleset received from an external source. The ruleset may include one or more rules defining a condition to accept or deny the network traffic received at the network device. The state of the network device may be integrated into the process control system as a process control object or variable, thus allowing the state and other UTMS and component network device parameters and variables to be displayed to an operator at a workstation within a graphical process control system environment. The network devices may also communicate with a perpetual service that proactively supplies the devices with rulesets to meet the latest security threats, threat patterns, and control system vulnerabilities found or predicted to exist within the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary K. Law, Nate Kube, Robert K. Huba, Brandon Hieb, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez