ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,291, issued on June 17, was assigned to Acer Cyber Security Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Information leakage detection method and device using the same" was invented by Chiung-Ying Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Huei-Tang Li (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Chung Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Wei-An Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information leakage detection method and a device using the same are disclosed. The method includes the following steps. Network connection data of an electronic device is obtained. Log data related to a (domain name system) DNS is extracted from the network connection data. A DNS request in the log data is ana...