ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,097, issued on March 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Threat analysis apparatus, threat analysis method, and recording medium" was invented by Tomoyuki Haga (Nara, Japan), Takamitsu Sasaki (Osaka, Japan), Hajime Tasaki (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hideki Matsushima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat information analysis server includes: an update manager that manages update information indicating that function addition to an IoT device is performed; a threat information manager that stores threat information of a cyberattack; a risk level manager that manages risk leve...