ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,167, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Security function execution device" was invented by Junya Fujita (San Jose, Calif.) and Noritaka Matsumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security function execution device in communication with a network. The device may include a processor, the processor is configured to: identify attributions of a plurality of nodes in communications with the network; determine criticality of each node of the plurality of nodes based on the attributions; and mediate communications between nodes of the plurality of nodes that are determined as being non-critical and execute secu...