ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,597, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Efficient anomaly detection for high volume operations" was invented by Samuel Sharpe (Somerville, Mass.), Christian Schwantes (Oilville, Va.) and Stephen M. George (Dumfries, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and related system for reducing computational cost when applying anomaly detection during high volume transaction processes includes detecting event motifs based on a shared occurrence of the event motifs across historical event sequences, grouping the event motifs based on the set of failures into at least a first motif dictionary associ...