ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,871, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Software defined anomaly detection for workloads" was invented by Shashank Mohan Jain (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a virtual machine, of a cloud computing environment, that executes a target application workload to be intercepted. A software defined anomaly detection engine (that is separate from the target application workload and that is also executing in the virtual machine) may intercept the target application workload. A computer processor of the software defined anomaly detection engine may intercept network traffic tha...