ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,897, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Threshold value calculation device, anomaly detection device, threshold value calculation method, and anomaly detection method" was invented by Yusuke Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Moe Yoshida (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyasu Terazawa (Osaka, Japan), Seiichi Muroya (Osaka, Japan) and Toshimasa Takaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threshold value calculation device includes: a device state acquirer that acquires a device state of a first device provided in a facility in which a home network is installed during a first period; a...