US Patent Issued to Morgan State University on April 14 for "Defense-in-depth method based on known device behavior" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,861, issued on April 14, was assigned to Morgan State University (Baltimore).

"Defense-in-depth method based on known device behavior" was invented by Kevin Kornegay (Middle River, Md.) and Khir Henderson (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems identify a device on an IoT network. A network controller detects connection of the device on the IoT network and determines an organizational unique identifier (OUI) from a media access control (MAC) address of the device. The network controller retrieves a vendor ID from an OUI database. The network controller sends requests to the device via transmission control proto...