ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,855, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Armis Security Ltd. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"Anomaly detection and mitigation using device subpopulation partitioning" was invented by Yuval Friedlander (Petah-Tiqwa, Israel), Gil Ben Zvi (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Ron Shoham (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for anomaly detection. A method includes recursively partitioning a sample of device activity data including deterministic characteristics of a population of devices over iterations in order to create partitions. Each iteration includes determining a split density metric for a candidate subpopulation cr...