US Patent Issued to eBay on May 26 for "Detecting outliers in multimodal distributions using empirical cumulative distribution functions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,104, issued on May 26, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting outliers in multimodal distributions using empirical cumulative distribution functions" was invented by Kaixi Yang (Belfast, Great Britain), Marc Patterson (Belfast, Great Britain), Paul Miller (Belfast, Great Britain) and Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an anomaly is provided. The method receives and organizes data as a function of a plurality of time periods and a number of updates for each time period of the plurality of time periods. The organized data approximates first and second...