ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,969, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AVL LIST GMBH (Graz, Austria).
"Method for checking the security of a technical unit" was invented by Peter Priller (Gratwein-StraBengel, Austria) and Stefan Marksteiner (Vasoldsberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods for checking the security of a technical unit, wherein at least one first plausible model variant is determined. In one example embodiment, the method includes the following steps carried out on a test computer system: assigning known vulnerabilities to components of the model variants; defining an attack a...