ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,529, issued on Nov. 11.

"Platform and method for automated moving target defense" was invented by Thomas M. McNamara Jr. (Ellicott City, Md.) and Nicholas M. Hughes (Sykesville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a system and method for machine-to-machine communication in a Zero Trust environment. The instant invention describes a platform implementation that disables threat actors and their methods that target workload credentials. The platform is an Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) platform that creates sidecars that contain algorithms for creating secure keys from user specified dynamic elements, a m...