ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,711, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Ryo Mizushima (Tokyo) and Tomohiko Yagyu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measure candidate table includes a plurality of measures and indices indicating the effects of respective measures. A measure compatibility table includes combinations of measures in each of which two or more of the plurality of measures are combined with each other and indies indicating the effects of respective combinations of measures. A measure calculation means plans a measure against an attack used in a...