ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,674, issued on July 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Detection device, detection method, and detection program" was invented by Tomokatsu Takahashi (Musashino, Japan), Masanori Yamada (Musashino, Japan), Tomohiro Nagai (Musashino, Japan) and Yuki Yamanaka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire data to be detected and normal reference data, calculate a Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS) distance between the acquired data and the reference data, and classify the acquired data into either a Clean Sample or an Adversarial Example by usin...