Patents by Inventor Craig G. Rieger

Craig G. Rieger 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).

  • Publication number: 20240089284
    Abstract: A system comprises one or more networks including a digital twin and one or more cyber system components. The digital twin is configured to emulate at least a portion of a physical system of an operational technology (OT) system. One or more processors of the system are configured to select a mitigative response measure to enable in the one or more networks for execution in response to a simulated cyber attack; determine a physical system reaction and a cyber system reaction responsive to the simulated cyber attack and the mitigative response measure; and determine a resilience level of an OT system enabled with the mitigative response measure responsive to the physical system reaction and the cyber system reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Konstantinos Kolias, Robert Christopher Ivans
  • Patent number: 11874930
    Abstract: An anomaly detector is configured to construct cyber and/or physical features comprising information configured to characterize the cyber and/or physical state of a cyber-physical system. The physical features may be based on physical and/or physics-based relationships between a plurality of physical state attributes. A health of the cyber-physical system may be based on an error between estimates of one or more of the physical state attributes and measurements of the one or more physical state attributes. The relationships may be incorporated into machine learning membership functions used to classify cyber and/or physical behavior of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Timothy R. McJunkin
  • Publication number: 20230101742
    Abstract: A component security device may be disposed at an interface between a component and a cyber-physical system. The disclosed component security device may be physically and/or electrically coupled between the component and infrastructure of the cyber-physical system, such as a backplane, bus, and/or the like. The component security device may be configured to monitor the component, and selectively isolate the component from the cyber-physical system. Since the component security device is interposed at the interface of the component, the component security device may be capable of isolating the component regardless of whether the component has been compromised (e.g., regardless of whether the component is capable of complying with system commands).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Edward E. Springer, Michael V. McCarty, Timothy R. McJunkin
  • Patent number: 11579592
    Abstract: A component security device may be disposed at an interface between a component and a cyber-physical system. The disclosed component security device may be physically and/or electrically coupled between the component and infrastructure of the cyber-physical system, such as a backplane, bus, and/or the like. The component security device may be configured to monitor the component, and selectively isolate the component from the cyber-physical system. Since the component security device is interposed at the interface of the component, the component security device may be capable of isolating the component regardless of whether the component has been compromised (e.g., regardless of whether the component is capable of complying with system commands).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Edward E. Springer, Michael V. McCarty, Timothy R. McJunkin
  • Publication number: 20230021214
    Abstract: Tracking of health and resilience of physical equipment and related systems are disclosed. A system includes physical equipment and one or more processors. The physical equipment includes one or more assets. The one or more processors are configured to determine a resilience metric for the physical equipment. The resilience metric includes a real power component and a reactive power component based, at least in part, on an aggregation of real components and reactive components of adaptive capacities of the one or more assets. A cyber-physical system includes physical equipment, network equipment configured to enable the physical equipment to communicate over one or more networks, a physical anomaly detection system (ADS) configured to detect anomalies in operation of the physical equipment and provide a physical component of a cyber-physical metric, and a cyber ADS configured to detect anomalies in network communications over the one or more networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jacob P. Lehmer, Craig G. Rieger, Bjorn C. Vaagensmith, Tyler B. Phillips, Timothy R. McJunkin, Robert C. Ivans, Vivek Kumar Singh, Justin J. Welch, Ruixuan Li, Daniel Marino Lizarazo, Chathurika Mudiyanselage Wickramasinghe Brahmana Mudiyanselage, Milos Manic, Brian Johnson
  • Publication number: 20220138872
    Abstract: Described are systems, methods and devices for computer-aided infrastructure assessment. Some embodiments relate to computer-aided assessment of infrastructure using combinations of probabilistic risk assessment, resource delivery simulation, and physics-based resilience analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Bjorn C. Vaagensmith, Jesse L. Reeves, James R. Case, Timothy R. McJunkin, Kurt G. Vedros, Liam D. Boire, Jason A. Wayment, Craig G. Rieger
  • Publication number: 20210209233
    Abstract: A resilient security agent determines a cyber and/or physical health of a control system by, inter alia, communicating cyber-physical key data through cyber-physical control paths of the system, and determining error introduced by the communication. The resilient security agent may be further configured to verify the integrity of acquired cyber-physical state information. The cyber health of the control system may be evaluated by comparing the acquired cyber state information to one or more cyber state profiles. The physical health of the control system may be evaluated by comparing the acquired physical state information to one or more physical state profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Timothy R. McJunkin, Milos Manic, Kasun Amarasinghe
  • Publication number: 20210089661
    Abstract: An anomaly detector is configured to construct cyber and/or physical features comprising information configured to characterize the cyber and/or physical state of a cyber-physical system. The physical features may be based on physical and/or physics-based relationships between a plurality of physical state attributes. A health of the cyber-physical system may be based on an error between estimates of one or more of the physical state attributes and measurements of the one or more physical state attributes. The relationships may be incorporated into machine learning membership functions used to classify cyber and/or physical behavior of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Timothy R. McJunkin
  • Publication number: 20210048796
    Abstract: A component security device may be disposed at an interface between a component and a cyber-physical system. The disclosed component security device may be physically and/or electrically coupled between the component and infrastructure of the cyber-physical system, such as a backplane, bus, and/or the like. The component security device may be configured to monitor the component, and selectively isolate the component from the cyber-physical system. Since the component security device is interposed at the interface of the component, the component security device may be capable of isolating the component regardless of whether the component has been compromised (e.g., regardless of whether the component is capable of complying with system commands).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Edward E. Springer, Michael V. McCarty, Timothy R. McJunkin
  • Patent number: 10896261
    Abstract: A resilient security agent determines a cyber and/or physical health of a control system by, inter alia, communicating cyber-physical key data through cyber-physical control paths of the system, and determining error introduced by the communication. The resilient security agent may be further configured to verify the integrity of acquired cyber-physical state information. The cyber health of the control system may be evaluated by comparing the acquired cyber state information to one or more cyber state profiles. The physical health of the control system may be evaluated by comparing the acquired physical state information to one or more physical state profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignees: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Timothy R. McJunkin, Milos Manic, Kasun Amarasinghe
  • Publication number: 20200175171
    Abstract: A resilient security agent determines a cyber and/or physical health of a control system by, inter alia, communicating cyber-physical key data through cyber-physical control paths of the system, and determining error introduced by the communication. The resilient security agent may be further configured to verify the integrity of acquired cyber-physical state information. The cyber health of the control system may be evaluated by comparing the acquired cyber state information to one or more cyber state profiles. The physical health of the control system may be evaluated by comparing the acquired physical state information to one or more physical state profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Craig G. Rieger, Timothy R. McJunkin, Milos Manic, Kasun Amarasinghe