ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,006, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for graphical reticulated attack vectors for internet of things aggregate security (gravitas)" was invented by Jacob Brown (Toronto), Tanujay Saha (Princeton, N.J.) and Niraj K. Jha (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a system for detecting security vulnerabilities in at least one of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors configured to construct an attack directed acyclic graph (DAG) unique to ...