ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,948, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SK Planet Co. Ltd. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for anomaly detection" was invented by Yeonghyeon Park (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anomaly detection method and apparatus are provided using an attention mechanism or based on an artificial neural network for minimizing computational cost. In an embodiment, the anomaly detection method may include entering, by a detection unit, input data into a detection network; generating, by the detection network, an attention map and output data through a plurality of operations in which a plurality of layer...