US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on May 13 for "Network edge digital twin for IoT attack detection" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,597, issued on May 13, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Network edge digital twin for IoT attack detection" was invented by Malak Mohammed Alhazmi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Fatimah Yousef Alakeel (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting an attack on an Internet of Things (IoT) device connected to an edge of a local network includes: scanning the local network's edge to detect an IoT device connected to said local network edge, detecting the IoT device, running a digital twin of the detected IoT device, transmitting a copy of real-time data, directed to the de...