ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,873, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Anomaly detection system and method for implementing a data regularity check and adaptive thresholding" was invented by Houwu Bai (San Jose, Calif.), Kristal Curtis (San Francisco), William Deaderick (Austin, Calif.), Tanner Gilligan (San Bruno, Calif.), Poonam Yadav (San Francisco) and Om Rajyaguru (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computerized methodologies are disclosed that are directed to detecting anomalies within a time-series data set. A first aspect of the anomaly detection process includes analyzing the regularity of the data points o...