ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,726, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for detecting anomalous behavior" was invented by Shoma Chakravarty (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Manah M. Khalil (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include monitoring calls and/or traffic on a network and identifying behavior associated with each of a plurality of user devices with respect to activity on the network. The method may also include aggregating information about the behavior associated with the user devices, determining whether the aggregated information corresponds to an anomaly with resp...