US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on March 17 for "Penetration testing of cellular network environments" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,308, issued on March 17, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Penetration testing of cellular network environments" was invented by Salim SreeNarayanaPillai Indiradevi (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Penetration testing is performed on a cellular network environment. An attacker system sends a request packet to a target user equipment that is connected to a base station of a cellular network. A source Internet Protocol (IP) address of the request packet is changed to an IP address that allows a response packet from the target user equipment to be received at a relay system. The request packet is encapsulated in ...