ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,157, issued on July 15, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Cyber security appliance for an operational technology network" was invented by Simon Fellows (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jack Stockdale (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyber security appliance has one or more modules to interact with entities in an operational technology network and potentially in an informational technology network. The operational technology module can reference various machine-learning models trained on a normal pattern of life of users, devices, and/or controllers of the operational technolo...