US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Nov. 3 for "Multivariate hierarchical anomaly detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,581, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Multivariate hierarchical anomaly detection" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ryan Mercer (Colton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, at a first level manager, receiving vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles, aggregating the vehicle data, determining a first variable associated with the plurality of vehicles based on the aggregated vehicle data, and transmitting the aggregated vehicle data to a second level manager. The second level manager is in a higher hierarchical leve...