ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,518, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Log anomaly detection using temporal-attentive dynamic graphs" was invented by Yanchi Liu (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.) and Yufei Li (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for employing a graph-based log anomaly detection framework to detect relational anomalies in system logs is provided. The method includes collecting log events from systems or applications or sensors or instruments, constructing dynamic graphs to describe relationships among the log events and log fields by using a sliding windo...