ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,750, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Detecting apparatus, training apparatus, detecting method, training method, detecting program, and training program" was invented by Yuki Yamanaka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes: an encoding unit that converts one packet to be detected into one fixed-length vector by using natural language processing technology; and a detection unit that detects presence or absence of an abnormality in the packet to be detected based on the fixed-length vector converted by the encoding unit using a detection model."

The patent was filed on Sept. 18...