ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,713, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adaptive multi-dimensional anomaly detection" was invented by Varun Chawla (Sammamish, Wash.), Karthik Uthaman (Seattle) and Ashok Nandoori (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive multi-dimensional anomaly detection is provided. System load metrics of a computing device are monitored. Multi-dimensional analysis of traffic data from a plurality of traffic sources is performed with security modules of an anomaly detector on the computing device. A traffic source is identified from the plurality of traffic sources based on the mu...