ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,308, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"System and method for modelling a cyber-physical system to act as a honeypot for cyberattacks" was invented by Amr Mohamed Saber Mohamed (Kingston, Canada) and Deepa Kundur (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for modelling a cyber-physical system to act as a honeypot for cyberattacks. The method including: building a virtual instance of the cyber-physical system including a physical layer and a cyber layer that controls the physical layer; generating a safety set defined by control barrier functions,...