ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,297, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NOBLIS INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Multi-layer cyber-physical systems simulation platform" was invented by Cory Krause (Rockville, Md.), Mark Jason Sanders (Reston, Va.), Ilya L. Basin (Vienna, Va.), Mychal William Joseph Ivancich (Reston, Va.), Shane Dillon Mitchell (Reston, Va.), Nicholas Gregory Kaufman (Seattle) and John Fant (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for simulating cyber-physical systems are disclosed. A plurality of geographic simulation layers representing respective infrastructure sectors of a real-world environment may be generated, and the layers may ...