US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Anomaly detection using masked auto-encoder" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,182, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Anomaly detection using masked auto-encoder" was invented by Eliyahu Schwartz (Haifa, Israel), Leonid Karlinsky (Acton, Mass.), Sivan Harary (Manof, Israel) and Assaf Arbelle (Lehvot Haviva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor that can randomly mask tokens using different masks to generate different subsets of masked tokens. The processor can process the different sets of masked tokens via a pretrained masked auto-encoder (MAE) encoder to output intermediate representations. The processor can process...