US Patent Issued to NEC on July 14 for "Policy consistency verification apparatus, policy consistency verification method, and policy consistency verification program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,088, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Policy consistency verification apparatus, policy consistency verification method, and policy consistency verification program" was invented by Masaki Inokuchi (Tokyo) and Shohei Mitani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy consistency verification apparatus includes a policy conversion part configured to generate an If-Then rule approximating a policy function used as an input, wherein the policy function is generated from policy definition defining attribute value of access and a rule regarding accessibility to obtain an output of accessibility from inputs of the ...