US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 1 for "Method and system for detecting a cyber-attack on a machine controller" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,543, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for detecting a cyber-attack on a machine controller" was invented by Rishith Ellath Meethal (Bavaria, Germany), Christoph Ernst Ludwig (Munich), Mohamed Khalil (Munich), Christoph Heinrich (Donauworth, Germany), Steffen Fries (Baldham, Germany), Uwe Blocher (Puchheim, Germany) and Dirk Hartmann (ABling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For detecting a cyber-attack on a machine controller, a concurrent simulation of the machine is run in a secured access domain. From the machine controller actual control data are transmitted to the machine and resulti...