ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,977, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Proactive anomaly detection" was invented by Arun Kumar Gowd (Bangalore, India), Pankaj Kumar (Bangalore, India), Yasra Shakil (Bangalore, India), Bibhas Mandal (Bangalore, India), Runa Nath (Kolkata, India) and Edwin M. Jose (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include creation of data associated with an instance of an entity, requesting, in response to creating the data, of execution of a partial anomaly check of stored data associated with the instance of the entity, detection of a log entry associated with the partial anomaly check,...