ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,072, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for generation and distribution of security models" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Tomer Kushnir (Omer, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing deployments are disclosed. The deployments may be secured by generating and deploying security models to components of the deployment. The security models may be obtained through simulation of the operation of the deployment. During the simulation, different types of attacks on its operation and potential defe...