ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,478, issued on March 24, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Unsupervised anomaly detection for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Vikas Sindhwani (Redwood City, Calif.), Hakim Sidahmed (Redwood City, Calif.), Krzysztof Choromanski (Redwood City, Calif.) and Brandon L. Jones (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, techniques are provided for analyzing time series data to detect anomalies. In some embodiments, the time series data is processed using a machine learning model. In some embodiments, the machine learning model is trained in an unsupervised manner on large amounts of ...