ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,456, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Malware detection method, malware detection device, and recording medium" was invented by Ryo Kato (Osaka, Japan), Manabu Maeda (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyuki Haga (Nara, Japan) and Naohisa Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A malware detection method for a home network system including one or more home appliances that are connected to a home network includes: obtaining a plurality of setting values including at least information indicating a device type and an operating state of a target device subject t...