ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,883, issued on April 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Analysis system, method, and program" was invented by Yoshinobu Ohta (Tokyo), Hirofumi Ueda (Tokyo), Shunichi Kinoshita (Tokyo) and Ryo Mizushima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis unit 6 generates one or more pairs of a start point fact which is a fact representing possibility of the attack in a device that is a start point and an end point fact which is a fact representing possibility of the attack in the device that is an end point, analyzes, for each pair, whether or not it is possible to derive the end point fact from the start point fact, based on facts ...