ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,314, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Cyber security deception system" was invented by Xavier Bellekens (Glasgow, Great Britain), Christos Tachtatzis (Glasgow, Great Britain), Robert Atkinson (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Ivan Andonovic (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyber security system for protecting a networked system, the cyber security system being implemented on a computer service comprised in or provided in communication with the networked system, the cyber security system being configured to deploy an interactive deception framework configured to...