ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,778, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Highly anomalous data detection in analytics service" was invented by Ania Kacewicz (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are directed to facilitating efficient detection of highly anomalous data. In one embodiment, one or more maximum values within a set of aggregated values corresponding with a sequence of time spans are identified. An extreme value distribution is generated based on the one or more maximum values. Thereafter, a highly anomalous threshold is determined using a confidence threshold and the extreme valu...