ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,866, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon Virginia Inc. (Newport News, Va.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for anomaly detection" was invented by Xiwu Cao (Arcadia, Calif.) and Bradley Scott Denney (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods obtain one or more training images; obtain a test image; select one or more associated pixels in the training images for a target pixel in the training images; calculate respective value relationships between a value of the target pixel and respective values of the associated pixels in the training images; select one or more associated pixels in the test imag...