ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,825, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).

"System and methods for data model detection and surveillance" was invented by Xuyang Lin (Cambridge, Mass.), Tudor Morosan (Toronto), Douglas Hamilton (Boston), Shihui Chen (Boston), Hyunsoo Jeong (Boston), Jonathan Rivers (Brighton, Mass.) and Leonid Rosenfeld (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is provided for monitoring and detecting changes in a data generating processes, which may be under a multi-dimensional and unsupervised setting. A target dataset is split into paired subgroups by a separator and one or more detectors are applied ...