ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,873, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data anomaly detection system" was invented by Shaodong Sheng (Shanghai), Yi Wang (Shanghai) and Geng Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to detecting data anomalies. A data analysis system accesses data generated on a data platform. The data analysis system then analyzes the data to detect one or more data anomalies. The analyzing includes generating an optimal coordinate system without reducing a number of dimensions using principal component analysis (PCA), transforming the data into the optimal coordinate system withou...