ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,151, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Multivariate and multi-timescale anomaly detection" was invented by Woei Ling Leow (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bill Byrd (San Francisco) and Rajagopal Iyengar (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for anomaly detection are disclosed. An anomaly detection system transforms observation signals received from signal generators into multidimensional representations. The system extracts portions of the multidimensional representation indicative of anomalies. Based on the extracted portions of the multidimensional representation, ...