ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,617, issued on April 1, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Labeling device and labeling program" was invented by Yuma Kurogome (Musashino, Japan), Makoto Iwamura (Musashino, Japan) and Jun Miyoshi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A labeling apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to extract a feature of malware to be labeled and features of a malware group with a known label, and identify malware or a malware group with a feature among the features of the malware group that is most similar to the feature of the malware to be labeled based on a degree of similarity between the fea...