US Patent Issued to The MITRE on June 24 for "Systems and methods for real-time binary analysis with hot patching of programmable logic controllers" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,211, issued on June 24, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for real-time binary analysis with hot patching of programmable logic controllers" was invented by Roshan K. Thomas (Centreville, Va.) and Gananand G. Kini (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for performing real-time binary analysis of code running in programmable logic controllers, and specifically to systems and methods for generating patches, testing patches, and implementing patches on programmable logic controllers while the controller is operating is provided. In one or more examples, a p...