ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,655, issued on March 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Anomaly detection using metric time series and event sequences for medical decision making" was invented by Yuncong Chen (Plainsboro, N.J.), LuAn Tang (Cranbury, N.J.), Yanchi Liu (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Zhengzhang Chen (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for anomaly detection include encoding a multivariate time series and a multi-type event sequence using respective transformers and an aggregation network to generate a feature vector. Anomaly detection is performed using the feature vector to...