US Patent Issued to Morgan State University on April 7 for "Detection and survival method against adversarial attacks on automated systems" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,075, issued on April 7, was assigned to Morgan State University (Baltimore).

"Detection and survival method against adversarial attacks on automated systems" was invented by Kevin Kornegay (Towson, Md.), Tsion M. Yimer (Essex, Md.) and Edmund H. Smith (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods provide device authentication for an intrusion detection system implementing building automation and control network (BACnet) Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP). An authentication protocol provides countermeasures to vulnerabilities in the BACnet MS/TP physical layer by utilizing an extended message format to cloak device identifiers (ID...