US Patent Issued to CRITICALITY SCIENCES on April 15 for "Detecting and mitigating cascading errors in a network to improve network resilience" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,726, issued on April 15, was assigned to CRITICALITY SCIENCES INC. (Alexandria, Va.).

"Detecting and mitigating cascading errors in a network to improve network resilience" was invented by Theodore G. Lewis (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a computer implemented method is provided. The method may include quantifying a plurality of component level risks for at least a subset of components in the network. The method may further include simulating cascades of the component level risks, with each corresponding component designated as a risk seed of the subset of components, throughout the network. The meth...