ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,780, issued on April 14, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (Bryan, Texas).

"Methods and systems for detecting compromised sensors using dynamic watermarking" was invented by Prasad N. Enjeti (College Station, Texas), Le Xie (College Station, Texas) and Panganamala R. Kumar (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting compromised sensors using dynamic watermarking. In some examples, a method includes injecting a dynamic random signal into an input of a power distribution system. The power distribution system includes at least one sensor and at least one power electronic contro...