US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 25 for "Time series anomaly detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,866, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Time series anomaly detection" was invented by Ting-Fang Yen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Isha Singhal (Milpitas, Calif.), Andrew D. Twigg (Belmont, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time series anomaly detection, including: gathering data associated with a particular event type and a particular user; generating, based on the data, a time series analysis; detecting an anomaly based on the time series analysis; and generating information describing the anomaly."

The patent was filed on Aug. 10, 2022, under Application No. 17/8...