ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,099, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system for anomaly detection" was invented by Kiran Rama (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects include techniques for anomaly detection via sparse judgmental samples. These techniques may include determining, for an observation, anomalous autoencoder output (AAO) of a first layer of a first autoencoder trained used anomalous observations and determining, for the observation, conforming autoencoder output (CAO) of a second layer of a second autoencoder trained used conforming observations. In addition, the ...