ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,185, issued on July 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Verification device, verification system, verification method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Jun Nishioka (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Sakae (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Isoyama (Tokyo) and Yuji Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a verification device capable of securely verifying a package with less loads on a developer side. A verification device according to the present disclosure includes a receiving means for receiving, between a distribution server that distributes a distribution package for software development and a terminal device, an ...