ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,959, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Intrusion detection system" was invented by Hiroshi Okuyama (Tokyo) and Toshinori Matsui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intrusion detection system comprises: a monitor listing for setting a rule(s) on which determination is performed whether communications data is normal or abnormal in every one of respective states; an intrusion detection unit for acquiring communications data flowing through a communications line(s), and for performing, by comparing the communications data with the monitor listing, determination on the presence or absence of abnor...