US Patent Issued to MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Attack detection and countermeasures for autonomous navigation" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,890, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (Baltimore).

"Attack detection and countermeasures for autonomous navigation" was invented by Md Tanvir Arafin (Baltimore) and Kevin Kornegay (Towson, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous navigation cyber-attack detection and/or avoidance techniques include visual and inertial odometry (VIO) algorithms to provide a root-of-trust during navigation, VIO algorithms that cross-validate navigation parameters using IMU and visual data, and hardware-dependent attack survival mechanisms that support autonomous systems during an attack."

The patent was filed on July 18, 2...