US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 26 for "Root cause detection of anomalous behavior using network relationships and event correlation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,978, issued on May 26, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Root cause detection of anomalous behavior using network relationships and event correlation" was invented by Cara Jividen (Dewitt, Ill.), Shannon Paul McMahon (Saint Joseph, Ill.) and Scott Ward (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node detects an alert corresponding to an anomalous event during a time period. The alert is correlated with previously detected alerts occurring within the time period and a causal relationship associated with nodes in the networked computing environment. The node may then recursively ide...