ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,892, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Analysis evasion function detection system and analysis evasion function detection method" was invented by Ryoji Shimizu (Tokyo), Shota Fujii (Tokyo) and Takayuki Satou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A branch related to an evasion function of malware in a control flow graph is specified using a signature to detect the evasion function."

The patent was filed on Sept. 9, 2024, under Application No. 18/827,933.

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