ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,471, issued on April 14.

"Anomaly detection system" was invented by David Makovoz (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computer. The computer includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to: construct a short-term graph based on data representing one or more primary events, update a long-term graph to include elements from the short-term graph when a numerical representation of the short-term graph deviates from a graph profile, and determine whether a maliciousness probability of the long-term graph exceeds an anomaly threshold."

The pat...