ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,699, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method to detect and countermeasure RPL attacks in IoT network" was invented by Farag Ahmed Azzedin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hussah Ali Albinali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method to detect an attack on an IoT network is disclosed. The IoT network includes interconnection of multiple IoT devices. The method includes receiving, by a network connection device, multiple ICMPv6 network packets from IoT devices and outputting multiple output packets; and matching, by a rout...