US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Dec. 16 for "Sequence-based anomaly detection with hierarchical spiking neural networks" (New Mexico, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,973, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Sequence-based anomaly detection with hierarchical spiking neural networks" was invented by Stephen Joseph Verzi (Albuquerque, N.M.), Craig Michael Vineyard (Cedar Crest, N.M.) and James Bradley Aimone (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anomaly detection for streaming data is provided. A spiking neural network receives inputs of streaming data, wherein each input is contained within a number of neighborhoods and converts the inputs into phase-coded spikes. A median value of each input is calculated for ea...