ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,020, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Firmware protection for industrial control systems" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Sergey Ulasen (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for firmware protection of industrial control systems. A kernel-level agent operating at a kernel mode intercepts a request to the resource, collects data associated with the intercepted request, and sends the collected data to a security service. A security service recei...