US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Virtual reality and digital twin-based security testcase execution" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,567, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Virtual reality and digital twin-based security testcase execution" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Christian Compton (Austin, Texas), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one embodiment, includes generating, using data defining physical characteristics and security characteristics of a physical environment, a digital twin of the physical environment. A set of test conditions are simulated within the digit...