US Patent Issued to NEC on April 7 for "Attack route extraction system, attack route extraction method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,812, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Attack route extraction system, attack route extraction method, and program" was invented by Masaki Inokuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attack route extraction system includes a functional part which extracts one or more attack steps that can be performed by a system to be diagnosed according to configuration information of the system to be diagnosed; a cost setting part which sets a cost to the attack step based on at least one piece of information of threat information, attack content information, countermeasure possibility information based on countermeasure...