ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,381, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unsupervised anomaly detection using lookahead pairs" was invented by Racheli Lazar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Liora Braunstein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting anomalies in sequences of actions using lookahead pairs (LAPs) are disclosed. An example method is performed by one or more processors of an unsupervised anomaly detection system and includes receiving, over a communications network, a sequence of actions, generating one or more LAPs of interest based on the received sequence of actions, each LAP of in...