ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,881, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Anomaly detection" was invented by Sadiq Sani (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for detecting anomalous behaviour within a system is provided. The method generates an autoencoder for detecting anomalous behaviour within the system. The method also generates a classifier for predicting a classification of behaviour within the system. An input to the classifier comprises an output from one or more internal layers of the autoencoder. The method jointly trains the autoencoder and the classifier using a set of training data...