ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,734, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Disentangled graph learning for incremental causal discovery and root cause analysis" was invented by Zhengzhang Chen (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.), Liang Tong (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Dongjie Wang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for locating root causes is provided. The method includes detecting a trigger point from entity metrics data and key performance indicator (KPI) data, generating a learned causal graph by fusing a state-invariant causal graph with a state-dependent causal graph, and locatin...