Computer hardware, namely, centralized network servers for industrial manufacturing process monitoring and control, sold as a unit with embedded operating software, for receiving, validating, storing, timestamping, and distributing data obtained from multiple portable data-collection and machinery-control devices used in cleanroom and other manufacturing-plant environments; computer hardware incorporating secure storage media for preserving original datasets and associated metadata received from distributed data-acquisition and machinery-control devices; computer software for managing communications between distributed data-collection and machinery control devices and the central server, for performing integrity checks, and for providing user authentication and role-based access control; computer software for maintaining a single-use blockchain ledger that cryptographically records and verifies provenance of process and sensor data received from distributed data-collection and machinery-control devices; all of the foregoing for use in component manufacturing systems. Mark used in connection with the foregoing goods as “SERVER PUCK.”
Electrical and Scientific Apparatus