ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,554, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Device population anomaly detection" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Thane West, India), Harish Bharti (Pune, India), Ankit Singhal (Meerut, India) and Sandeep Sukhija (Sri Ganganagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment establishes a network model based at least in part on network data received from a network, wherein the network data comprises device data and certificate data. The embodiment samples the network to receive a network data sample. The embodiment compares the network data sample to the network model to d...