ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,261, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Cyber-secure dynamic monitoring and decision systems" was invented by Marija Ilic (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting cyber attacks of subsystems include an interface of the subsystem that provides power exchange. A processor may be configured to calculate an interaction variable from a function of one or more internal states of the subsystem. A comparator circuit is coupled to receive the output signal and the interaction variable, to determine a difference between at least one characteris...