US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on May 20 for "Cybersecurity algorithms and tools for supervisory control and data acquisition and industrial control systems" (New York, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,188, issued on May 20, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Cybersecurity algorithms and tools for supervisory control and data acquisition and industrial control systems" was invented by Alaa Al Ghazo (Port Jefferson, N.Y.) and Ratnesh Kumar (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid approach involving the mix of communication patterns and passive fingerprinting is used to identify unknown device types, manufacturers, and models of devices of digital control systems. ANDVI implementation maps the identified devices to their known vulnerabilities. According to one example, to identify...