ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,067, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identifying anomalous activities in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Yun Shen (Bristol, Great Britain), Azzedine Benameur (Fairfax, Va.), Alex Xeong-Hoon Ough (Round Rock, Texas) and Idan Schwartz (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying anomalous activities in a cloud computing environment are provided. According to one embodiment, a customer's infrastructure may be fortified by leveraging deep learning technology (e.g., an encoder-decoder machine-learning (ML) model) to predict events in the cloud envir...