ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,047, issued on April 15, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Scalable real-time anomaly detection" was invented by Karim Ghessassi (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central computer system receives a first plurality of event records, each event record identifying one or more events that have occurred in a device of a plurality of different devices. The central computer system identifies, from the first plurality of event records, a first group of event records that identify a same first set of one or more events that occurred on a first subset of the devices. The central computer system det...