US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Feb. 25 for "Embedded intrusion prevention system for industrial controllers" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,120, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Embedded intrusion prevention system for industrial controllers" was invented by Aaron W. Werth (New Market, Ala.) and Thomas H. Morris (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intrusion prevention system can be embedded in an industrial controller to detect possible attacks on the corresponding physical system of the industrial controller. The intrusion prevention system can analyze the payload of network packets received at the industrial controller and ...