ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,302, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Suspicious communication detection apparatus, suspicious communication detection method, and suspicious communication detection program" was invented by Shohei Hiruta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspicious communication detection apparatus includes: a database; a machine learning model that receives features of an encrypted communication and that determines whether the encrypted communication is a suspicious communication; a determination part that refers to the database by using information about a received encrypted communication, enters obtained features about...