Patents by Inventor Casey J. Perkins

Casey J. Perkins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9092631
    Abstract: Computer-implemented security evaluation methods, security evaluation systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented security evaluation method includes accessing information regarding a physical architecture and a cyber architecture of a facility, building a model of the facility comprising a plurality of physical areas of the physical architecture, a plurality of cyber areas of the cyber architecture, and a plurality of pathways between the physical areas and the cyber areas, identifying a target within the facility, executing the model a plurality of times to simulate a plurality of attacks against the target by an adversary traversing at least one of the areas in the physical domain and at least one of the areas in the cyber domain, and using results of the executing, providing information regarding a security risk of the facility with respect to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: George Muller, Casey J. Perkins, Mary J. Lancaster, Douglas G. MacDonald, Samuel L. Clements, William J. Hutton, Scott W. Patrick, Bradley Robert Key
  • Publication number: 20150106941
    Abstract: Computer-implemented security evaluation methods, security evaluation systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented security evaluation method includes accessing information regarding a physical architecture and a cyber architecture of a facility, building a model of the facility comprising a plurality of physical areas of the physical architecture, a plurality of cyber areas of the cyber architecture, and a plurality of pathways between the physical areas and the cyber areas, identifying a target within the facility, executing the model a plurality of times to simulate a plurality of attacks against the target by an adversary traversing at least one of the areas in the physical domain and at least one of the areas in the cyber domain, and using results of the executing, providing information regarding a security risk of the facility with respect to the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: George Muller, Casey J. Perkins, Mary J. Lancaster, Douglas G. MacDonald, Samuel L. Clements, William J. Hutton, Scott W. Patrick, Bradley Robert Key