ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,002, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Anomaly detection during cloud application installation" was invented by Ying Mo (Beijing), Guangya Liu (Cary, N.C.), Xiaoli Duan (Beijing), Hou Fang Zhao (Beijing), Yan Wei Li (Beijing), Zhi Li (Beijing) and Yao Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product that are configured to: create a resource dependency graph that defines dependencies between resources created in an installation of a cloud native application, wherein the resource dependency graph includes a respective time range of each r...