ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,764, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Anomaly detection for time series data" was invented by Si Er Han (Xi'an, China), Jing Xu (Xi'an, China), Xue Ying Zhang (Xi'an, China), Xiao Ming Ma (Xi'an, China), Jun Wang (Xi'an, China) and Ji Hui Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for anomaly detection for a time series data is provided. Aspects include receiving a time series data including a plurality of sequential data points, calculating an expected next value for the time series data based on the plurality of sequential data points, and rece...