US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 2 for "Suspicious communication detection apparatus, suspicious communication detection method, and suspicious communication detection program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,696, issued on Sept. 2, 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: "An apparatus, method, and program for detecting suspicious communications are described herein. In some implementations, the method includes managing received communications in a database by separating them as encrypted communications and as non-encrypted communications; determining whether each received communication is an encrypted communication or a non-encrypted communi...