ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,461, issued on June 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Attack graph processing device, method, and program" was invented by Masaki Inokuchi (Tokyo) and Yoshinobu Ohta (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attack graph processing device includes a node extraction unit which extracts a node relating to a rule classified into a predetermined group from an attack graph that is configured from one or more nodes indicating the state of a system to be diagnosed, or the state of the primary agent of an attack on the system to be diagnosed, and one or more edges indicating the relationship among a plurality of nodes, the attack graph be...