US Patent Issued to Siemens on Dec. 30 for "Method and device for identifying malicious services in a network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,379, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and device for identifying malicious services in a network" was invented by Florian Gerdes (Erlangen, Germany), Christian Hahn (Hochstadt a.d. Aisch, Germany) and Wenlong Zhang (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for identifying/detecting non-qualified services in a network of distributed services. In some embodiments, the method includes: detecting comparative interaction patterns between at least two services in a contract; observing interaction patterns during the communication of the ser...