US Patent Issued to University College Dublin, Nurogames on Sept. 9 for "Serious gaming for interdependent critical infrastructure (CI) resilience determination" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,225, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University College Dublin (Dublin) and Nurogames GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Serious gaming for interdependent critical infrastructure (CI) resilience determination" was invented by Paraic James Carroll (Dublin), Daniel Patrick McCrum (Wicklow, Ireland) and Yash Shekhawat (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Serious gaming for interrelated critical infrastructure (CI) resilience improvement includes receiving from a serious gaming participant a selection of an anomalous event for a geographic region for which a hierarchy of CI elements has been modeled, and a specified change in allo...