ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,749, issued on May 26, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Residual neural networks for anomaly detection" was invented by Zhongfang Zhuang (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Yeh (Newark, Calif.), Wei Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Javid Ebrahimi (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products train a residual neural network including a first fully connected layer, a first recurrent neural network layer, and at least one skip connection for anomaly detection. The at least one skip connection directly connects at least one of (i) an output of the first full...