ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,646, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tiered anomaly detection" was invented by Lorne Schell (Montreal), Fanny C. Riols (Montreal), Stenio F. L. Fernandes (Ottawa) and Pegah Kamousi (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For each corresponding configuration item type of a plurality of different configuration item types, a corresponding multi-variate machine learning model of a plurality of multi-variate machine learning models is trained to perform anomaly detection for a corresponding configuration item type of the plurality of different configuration item types. In response to detecting...