ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,930, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CareFusion 303 Inc. (San Diego).

"Peer community based anomalous behavior detection" was invented by Abhikesh Nag (San Diego) and Cynthia Yamaga (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peer network may include nodes corresponding to different clinicians. An edge may interconnect the two nodes based on the corresponding clinicians sharing at least one common attribute such as for example, treating the same patients and/or interacting with the same medical devices. A machine-learning model may be applied to identify, in the peer network, one or more peer communities of clinicians. The a...