ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,545, issued on June 17, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Probabilistic anomaly detection in streaming device data" was invented by Raoul Johnson (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Jakub Burgis (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for a machine learning model for probabilistic anomaly detection in streaming device data. A server obtains a plurality of features associated with a user interaction between a user device and the server. The server selects a combination of features from the plurality of features, where the combination of features comprises features having a variance o...