US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on Jan. 13 for "Attack detection and countermeasure identification system" (California, Georgia, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,530, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security (Livermore, Calif.).

"Attack detection and countermeasure identification system" was invented by Jean-Paul Watson (Livermore, Calif.), Alyson Lindsey Fox (San Leandro, Calif.), Sarah Camille Mousley Mackay (Livermore, Calif.), Wayne Bradford Mitchell (Hayward, Calif.), Matthew Landen (Atlanta), Key-Whan Chung (Urbana, Ill.) and Elizabeth Diane Reed (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed which comprises accessing a detector model that is trained in parallel with an operator model and an attacker model using a reinforcement learning...