ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,553, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Expert-optimal correlation: contamination factor identification for unsupervised anomaly detection" was invented by Yasha Pushak (Vancouver, Canada), Constantin Le Clei (Zurich), Fatjon Zogaj (Zurich), Hesam Fathi Moghadam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hassan Chafi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer, each of multiple anomaly detectors infers an anomaly score for each of many tuples. For each tuple, a synthetic label is generated that indicates for each anomaly detector: the anomaly det...