US Patent Issued to Siemens on Sept. 30 for "Decision support for anomaly detection via impact analysis for security and safety" (North Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,234, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens Corp. (Washington).

"Decision support for anomaly detection via impact analysis for security and safety" was invented by Martin Otto (West Windsor, N.J.) and Anant Kumar Mishra (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing cybersecurity to an industrial system having multiple components includes monitoring communications across the components of the system and detecting a deviation in an expected communication state in a first component. Upon detection of a deviation, communication states of at least one other component in the system is observed. If a deviatio...