US Patent Issued to NEC on June 17 for "Efficient transformer for content-aware anomaly detection in event sequences" (New Jersey, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,005, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Efficient transformer for content-aware anomaly detection in event sequences" was invented by Yanchi Liu (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Xuchao Zhang (Elkridge, Md.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.), Wei Cheng (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Shengming Zhang (Kearny, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a self-attentive encoder-decoder transformer framework for anomaly detection in event sequences is presented. The method includes feeding event content information into a content-awareness layer to generate event representations, inputting, into an encoder...