ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,941, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Exemplar selection algorithm for increased density of extreme vectors" was invented by Keyang Ru (Kirkland, Wash.), Guang Chao Wang (San Diego), Ruixian Liu (San Diego) and Kenny C. Gross (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with inverse-density exemplar selection for improved multivariate anomaly detection are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining magnitudes of vectors from a set of time series readings collected from a plurality of sensors. And, the example...