ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,520, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Generation device, generation method, and generation program" was invented by Nariyoshi Chida (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generation device includes processing circuitry configured to extract log information in which a trace of intrusion remains from the log information construct graph structure data indicating an attack behavior order using time-series information included in the log information and generate a signature indicating a trace of an attack based on graph structure data constructed."

The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2022, under Application ...