US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Device security for cable threat actors" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,255, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Device security for cable threat actors" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Abigail E. Wise (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Kyle Olson (Lagrangeville, N.Y.) and Steven Leslie Shafer (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for hardening security within a physical location. At least one cable in the physical location is monitored for errors. In response to detecting an error on the cable a cable fault analysis procedure is performed to determine the location of the fault on the cable. A probability that th...