US Patent Issued to The MITRE on March 24 for "Detecting timing anomalies between GPS and independent clocks" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,026, issued on March 24, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Detecting timing anomalies between GPS and independent clocks" was invented by Darrow Paine Leibner (Arlington, Va.) and Alessandro Paolo Cerruti (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for adapting to malware activity on a compromised computer system by detecting timing anomalies between timing signals. An embodiment operates by analyzing first timing data accessed from a validated source and second timing data accessed from an unvalidated receiver source in order to comput...