ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,505, issued on July 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Detection system, detection method, and detection program" was invented by Yuki Yamanaka (Musashino, Japan), Hiroyoshi Takiguchi (Musashino, Japan), Masanori Shinohara (Musashino, Japan), Tomohiro Nagai (Musashino, Japan) and Yasunori Wada (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system includes a node and a verification server, wherein the node includes first processing circuitry configured to generate a plurality of random values based on a seed received from the verification server, and generate a response based on information on an area of a first stor...