US Patent Issued to The George Washington University on Sept. 23 for "MAYA: a hardware-based cyber-deception framework to combat malware" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,414, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The George Washington University (Washington).

"MAYA: a hardware-based cyber-deception framework to combat malware" was invented by Guru Prasadh V. Venkataramani (Fairfax, Va.), Preet Derasari (Alexandria, Va.) and Kailash Gogineni (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware framework for cyber-deception operations provides flexibility in formulating counterattacks and leverages hardware support for efficiency. Hardware-assisted deception primitives are provided at kernel crossing boundaries to privileged system features that propel the security defenses to dynamically manipula...