Patents by Inventor Kathleen E. Nowak

Kathleen E. Nowak 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: 11843634
    Abstract: Methods are described for protecting a cyber-physical system against a potential attacker of the system. The methods include a method of generating a plurality of examples for a training data set and training a system model using the training data set to generate a decoy configured to generate a synthetic output that mimics historical outputs generated by the system for a given historical system context. Also described is a method including receiving a system context of a cyber-physical system; receiving an inquiry into the system by a potential attacker; applying a system model to the system context and the inquiry; obtaining from the system model a synthetic output that mimics how a component of the system would respond to the inquiry given the system context; and providing the synthetic output to the potential attacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Thomas W. Edgar, Draguna L Vrabie, William J. Hofer, Kathleen E. Nowak
  • Publication number: 20220191246
    Abstract: Methods are described for protecting a cyber-physical system against a potential attacker of the system. The methods include a method of generating a plurality of examples for a training data set and training a system model using the training data set to generate a decoy configured to generate a synthetic output that mimics historical outputs generated by the system for a given historical system context. Also described is a method including receiving a system context of a cyber-physical system; receiving an inquiry into the system by a potential attacker; applying a system model to the system context and the inquiry; obtaining from the system model a synthetic output that mimics how a component of the system would respond to the inquiry given the system context; and providing the synthetic output to the potential attacker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Thomas W. Edgar, Draguna L. Vrabie, William J. Hofer, Kathleen E. Nowak
  • Patent number: 11297103
    Abstract: A system is described for protecting a cyber-physical system against a potential attacker of the cyber-physical system. The system includes at least one processor configured to: collect historical information about the cyber-physical system, and train, based on the historical information, a machine-learned model to predict future conditions of at least a portion of the cyber-physical system. Responsive to detecting an input signal to the cyber-physical system, the system is configured to output an alert to the cyber-physical system indicative of a potential attacker, and respond to the input signal by simulating, based on the future conditions predicted by the machine-learned model, functionality and communications of the at least a portion of the cyber-physical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Thomas W. Edgar, Draguna L. Vrabie, William J. Hofer, Kathleen E. Nowak
  • Publication number: 20200076850
    Abstract: A system is described for protecting a cyber-physical system against a potential attacker of the cyber-physical system. The system includes at least one processor configured to: collect historical information about the cyber-physical system, and train, based on the historical information, a machine-learned model to predict future conditions of at least a portion of the cyber-physical system. Responsive to detecting an input signal to the cyber-physical system, the system is configured to output an alert to the cyber-physical system indicative of a potential attacker, and respond to the input signal by simulating, based on the future conditions predicted by the machine-learned model, functionality and communications of the at least a portion of the cyber-physical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas W. Edgar, Draguna L. Vrabie, William J. Hofer, Kathleen E. Nowak