ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,717, issued on March 25, was assigned to LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Industrial control system device classification" was invented by Brian Michael Kelley (Livermore, Calif.), Indrasis Chakraborty (Lafayette, Calif.), Brian James Gallagher (Livermore, Calif.) and Daniel Matthew Merl (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an industrial control system (ICS), latent vectors are generated to represent identity or behaviors of host devices coupled to the ICS. A computing system captures communications transmitted by a host device across a network associated with the ICS. A set of values ar...