US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for blocking, detecting and responding to cyber attacks in physically controlled distributed systems" (New Mexico, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,594, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Systems and methods for blocking, detecting and responding to cyber attacks in physically controlled distributed systems" was invented by Jay T. Johnson (Albuquerque, N.M.), Christian B. Jones (Albuquerque, N.M.), Adrian R. Chavez (Davis, Calif.) and Shamina S. Hossain-McKenzie (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that provide Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) technologies that equip cyber-defenders with new capabilities to autonomously respond to network and ho...