ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,431, issued on March 3, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).
"Sensor anomaly detection" was invented by Giulio Giaconi (London), Samuel Moore (London), Christopher Nugent (London), Shuai Zhang (London) and Ian Cleland (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying anomalous data obtained by at least one sensor of a plurality of sensors located within an environment. The method includes identifying, based on sensor data obtained from the plurality of sensors, at least one instance of a sequence of events that occurred within the environment. A probability of the sequence of events occurring within t...