ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,566, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Security countermeasure planning system, security countermeasure planning method, and program" was invented by Masaki Inokuchi (Tokyo) and Tomohiko Yagyu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security countermeasure planning system includes a functional part which calculates one or more risk values of one or more resources included in a system to be diagnosed, a risk change estimation part which estimates one or more future risk estimation values of the one or more risk values of the one or more resources which the functional part calculates, and a countermeasure determinati...