ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,657, issued on July 21, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Adaptive dynamic network decoy system" was invented by Ryan Christopher Gabrys (San Diego), Daniel Silva (El Cajon, Calif.), Braulio Ivan Coronado (Winchester, Calif.), Mark Bilinski (Vista, Calif.) and Rucha Kolhatkar (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of maintaining a pool of network decoys includes evolving, over a plurality of epochs, the pool of network decoys towards one or more preferences of a network attacker. The method includes modeling preferences of the network attacker based o...