ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,453, issued on June 3, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and systems for evaluating effects of cyber attacks on cyber-physical systems" was invented by Suresh K. Damodaran (Acton, Mass.) and Saurabh Mittal (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for evaluating cyber effects in a cyber physical system (CPS). In some embodiments, a simulation model of the CPS is built and includes a plurality of component sets. The plurality of component sets includes at least one component in the simulation model. A control component is inserted into the simulation model. One or more connecti...