ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,793, issued on April 7, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo) and RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for pattern-based detection and mitigation of compromised credentials" was invented by Sota Aoki (Tokyo) and Maheshwaran Palanivelu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software attacks directed to compromising an insecurely-stored credential on a device may be detected and mitigated by detection of each of an initial stage and a subsequent stage through identifiers within an activity log of the device. Detection of an initial identifier indicating a possible attempt to locate an insecurely-stored credential indi...