US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on April 22 for "Rule generating device and rule generating program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,550, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rule generating device and rule generating program" was invented by Yuma Kurogome (Musashino, Japan), Yuhei Kawakoya (Musashino, Japan), Makoto Iwamura (Musashino, Japan), Yuto Otsuki (Musashino, Japan) and Jun Miyoshi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rule generation apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to enumerate rule candidates with different degrees of abstraction as candidates for a rule for detecting a malware trace using an analysis result of malware, and calculate evaluation values of the rule candidates enu...