ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,116, issued on June 17, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for detecting anomalous changes in data streams and generating textual explanations" was invented by Yaron Kanza (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Rajat Malik (Metuchen, N.J.), Divesh Srivastava (Summit, N.J.) and Caroline Stone (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: receiving a series of values...