ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,598, issued on May 6, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Attack monitoring center apparatus and attack monitoring terminal apparatus" was invented by Naoya Ishida (Kariya, Japan), Takahiro Shidai (Kariya, Japan) and Taiji Abe (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an attack monitoring center apparatus, an event log transmitted from an attack monitoring terminal apparatus is received via a communication network. A first pattern and a second pattern are read from an event log occurrence pattern database which describes event log occurrence patterns. The first pattern is referred to in response to an abnormality bei...