ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,505, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for data lineage-based system anomaly detection" was invented by Thomas J. O'Connor (San Francisco), Jon Stofer (Saratoga, Calif.), William Ye (San Francisco), Jose Moreno (Berkeley, Calif.) and Samuel Joshua Bennett (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable anomaly detection based on data lineage by using at least one processor to receive initial lineage records that record initial changes in data items at each data processor of a lineage stream. The processor(s) generates a hi...