US Patent Issued to Alabama A&M University on Jan. 13 for "Cyberattack detection and protection system for a distributed control system" (Alabama, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,296, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Alabama A&M University (Normal, Ala.).

"Cyberattack detection and protection system for a distributed control system" was invented by Raziq Yaqub (Normal, Ala.) and Dennis Culley (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyberattack detection and protection system is able to detect an anomalous condition in a distributed control system of an aerospace vehicle in real time by analyzing the packets from redundant channels used by each device in the control system. The cyberattack detection and protection system initially performs a shallow packet inspection of values in the packets from the red...