ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,533, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Anomalous region detection with local neural transformations" was invented by Maja Rudolph (Madison, Wis.), Chen Qiu (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Tim Schneider (Nufringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A anomalous region detection method includes receiving time series data being grouped in patches, encoding, via parameters of an encoder, the data to obtain local latent representations, determining a representation loss from the local latent representations, transforming the local latent representations associated with each patch, via at least two local neur...