ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,423, issued on March 18, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic anomaly reporting" was invented by Kanwaldeep K. Dang (Sammamish, Wash.), Anand Nikhil Mehta (Bellevue, Wash.), Kiran Kumar Bushireddy (Woodinville, Wash.), Swapnesh Patel (Bothell, Wash.) and Bnayahu Makovsky (KirYat-Ono, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for dynamic selection of anomaly detection options for particular metric data. Metric data corresponding to one or more configuration items of an information technology (IT) infrastructure is collected. A selected anomaly detection action option that appli...