ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,100, issued on May 26, was assigned to NETSKOPE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for anomaly detection" was invented by Srinivas Akella (San Jose, Calif.) and Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer network anomaly detection systems and methods are disclosed. One embodiment includes retrieving one or more learned profiles for a group of networked computing devices included in a computer network from a database. For each pair of computing devices in the group, a pairwise distance matrix may be computed. Each pairwise distance in the pairwise distance matrix is computed based on a s...