ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,182, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enriched anomalous computer activity detection with language models" was invented by Brendan Cruz Colon (Seattle), Matthew Michael Sommer (Friday Harbor, Wash.), Consuelo Manas Pilot (Ponte Vedra, Fla.) and Joshua Scott Hansen (Sahuarita, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system enriches detections of anomalous computer-related activity with output from a language model. The detection and enrichment system uses Bayesian inference to model the likelihood that a co-occurrence of a detection event and an enriched detection event indicate an actual attack. ...