ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,056, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for detecting anomalies in data files" was invented by Ryan A. Beckett (Redmond, Wash.), Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla (Redmond, Wash.) and Yu Yan (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for detecting anomalies in files. Each of multiple files can be processed to generate corresponding flat files. Values can be extracted from multiple lines of each of the flat files into a parameter vector. Patterns can be generated from the multiple lines based on the values extracted. The parameter vector and the patte...