ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,996, issued on June 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Upgrading control plane network functions with proactive anomaly detection capabilities" was invented by Taous Madi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Hyame Alameddine (Montreal), Makan Pourzandi (Montreal), Amine Boukhtouta (Laval, Canada), Guido Socher (Baie d'Urfe, Canada) and Mohammad Bilal (Kirkland, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a detection node includes processing circuitry that is configured to determine a forecast sequence using a first prediction model,...