ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,254, issued on April 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Corroborating device-detected anomalous behavior" was invented by Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Michael S. Gordon (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Mattias Fitzpatrick (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Brian Paul Gaucher (Brookfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for corroborating anomalous behavior. The techniques include training devices included in an Internet of Things (IoT) mesh network to independently identify occurrences of anomalous behavior in a proximate physical environment. The techniques further include receiving even...