ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,706, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting network anomalies" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Thane West, India), Harish Bharti (Pune, India), Ankit Singhal (Meerut, India) and Sandeep Sukhija (Rajasthan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting network anomalies is provided. An amount of change between aggregate representational error data and number of hops data and average travel time data is determined based on comparing the aggregate representational error data that indicate expected network behavior for a network regarding data packet number of hops and av...