US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Sept. 30 for "Embedded intrusion detection system for industrial controllers" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,223, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Embedded intrusion detection system for industrial controllers" was invented by Rishabh Das (Huntsville, Ala.) and Thomas Heath Morris (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intrusion detection system can be embedded in an industrial controller to detect an attack on an industrial control system. The intrusion detection system can detect an attack by determining if there are anomalies related to the network traffic in the industrial control system and/...