ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,821, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Anomaly detection and anomalous patterns identification" was invented by Xi Yang (Apex, N.C.), Larisa Shwartz (Greenwich, Conn.), Ruchi Mahindru (Elmsford, N.Y.), Ian Manning (Church Hill, Ireland), Ruchir Puri (Baldwin Place, N.Y.) and Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for end-to-end anomaly detection and anomalous patterns identification is disclosed. The approach leverages the use of a GMM-LASSO (a selection operator-type, Lasso-type, generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator) algorith...