US Patent Issued to SAS Institute on June 24 for "Real-time anomaly detection and mitigation for streaming functional data" (Iowa, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,800, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAS Institute Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Real-time anomaly detection and mitigation for streaming functional data" was invented by Chengpeng Zeng (Ames, Iowa), Kai Shen (Apex, N.C.) and Zohreh Asgharzadeh Talebi (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functions representing sequences of values of a time-series dataset measured within a particular time period are accessed. For a current time window of the time period, a first discretized covariance function is computed that represents a relationship between each value measured within the current time window. Eigenanalysis of the first covariance ...