ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,162, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Anomaly detection using forecasting computational workloads" was invented by Antony Stephen Higginson (Cheshire, Great Britain), Octavian Arsene (Bucharest, Romania), Mihaela Dediu (Manchester, Great Britain) and Thomas Elders (Dublin, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for predicting anomalies in forecasted time-series data are disclosed. A system. A system predicts whether a monitored computing system will experience anomalies by comparing forecasted values associated with components in the monitored computing system...