US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on May 26 for "Monitoring apparatus and monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,102, issued on May 26, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Monitoring apparatus and monitoring method" was invented by Tatsumi Oba (Chiba, Japan) and Takuji Hiramoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring apparatus includes: a user input acquirer that acquires information based on input provided by a user to a user input device; and a communication anomaly detector that detects a communication anomaly in communication that is being observed, and the communication anomaly detector detects the communication anomaly based on information about a packet whose source...