ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,701, issued on July 29, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for detecting and explaining anomalies" was invented by Razieh Abbasi Ghalehtaki (Quebec, Canada), Fetahi Wuhib (Quebec, Canada), Amin Ebrahimzadeh (Quebec, Canada) and Roch Glitho (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to a method and apparatus for detecting and explaining anomalies in data obtained from an environment using an encoder-decoder machine learning model. A state of the environment is represented by a plurality of features, and the machine learning model is trained ...