ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,061, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd (Tokyo).

"Malware analysis continuation system and malware analysis continuation method" was invented by Shota Fujii (Tokyo), Rei Yamagishi (Tokyo), Katsuya Nishijima (Tokyo), Tomohiro Shigemoto (Tokyo) and Takayuki Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication of dynamically analyzed malware is mediated. Even in a case where communication with the attacker server is stopped, a response accumulated as past data is returned to continue dynamic analysis."

The patent was filed on Sept. 10, 2024, under Application No. 18/830,111.

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