US Patent Issued to NEC on June 24 for "Program analysis device, program analysis method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,952, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Program analysis device, program analysis method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Yusuke Shimada (Tokyo) and Takayuki Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program analysis device including: code block extraction means for extracting code blocks having specific qualities from code blocks included in binary data of a program; backdoor score calculation means for calculating, for each code block extracted by the code block extraction means, based on the contents of operations in each code block, a backdoor score, which is a score indicating the possibili...