MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631024431 A) filed by National Institute Of Technolog, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on March 2, for 'a system and method for cybersecurity supervision of a safety instrumented system.'
Inventor(s) include Anuj Kumar; Dr. Koushlendra Kumar Singh; and Dr. Vinay Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a system for cybersecurity supervision of a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) that ensures continuous cyber risk visibility without compromising functional safety or deterministic operation. The system comprises a cybersecurity supervision unit communicatively coupled to the SIS through a passive, read-only, high-impedance interface forming a non-intrusive observation path. A safety function monitoring module acquires real-time operational and diagnostic data, including execution states, demand counts, bypass conditions, proof-test timestamps, configuration checksums, and related safety parameters, without affecting scan cycles, logic states, or memory integrity. An override safety advisor evaluates active bypasses against approved temporal windows, verifies compensating safeguards, detects overlapping bypasses, and computes a residual risk score. A cyber risk indicator generator converts correlated evaluations into serialized cybersecurity health metrics. A strictly unidirectional boundary interface transmits telemetry to an external security operations centre while physically preventing reverse communication, thereby preserving SIS independence and ensuring fail-safe operational integrity."
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