ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,870, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes Sous Bois, France) and COMMISARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for detecting outliers in a set of runs of software applications" was invented by Lionel Vincent (Brie-et-Angonnes, France), Trong-Ton Pham (Grenoble, France) and Salim Mimouni (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting outlier behavior in a set of executions of one or several applications on an information processing device, implemented by a computer and comprising steps of triggering (S1) said set of executions in collaboration wit...