ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,489, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Anomaly detection" was invented by Nektarios Georgalas (London), Matthew Wallwork (London) and Claudia Cristina (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of detecting anomalous behaviour within an environment is provided. The environment is monitored by a plurality of sensors providing a plurality of data feeds. Each data feed provides a respective data series representing a respective physical property of the environment over time. The method of detects an occurrence of an event within the environment and identifies a type of...