US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Finding outliers in similar time series samples" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,798, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Finding outliers in similar time series samples" was invented by Ye Wang (Xi'an, China), Xiang Yu Yang (Xi'an, China), Yong Wang (Xi'an, China), Deng Xin Luo (Xi'an, China), Zhong Fang Yuan (Xi'an, China) and Zhi Yong Jia (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for finding outliers in multi-dimensional time series samples. Each time series sample is divided into at least 2 sub samples having equal time duration. At least one prediction model is pre-trained using the sub samples an...