ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,721, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Anomaly detection using user behavioral biometrics profiling method and apparatus" was invented by Bharatwaaj Shankar (Chennai, India), Ishi Khamesra (Rajasthan, India), Subham Biswas (Maharashtra, India), Anne Lourdu Grace Joseph Martin (Chennai, India), Malaya Rout (Tamil Nadu, India), Venkadesh X. Thirupathi (Chennai, India), Navin Dalavai Premkumar (Tamil Nadu, India) and Mohit Kumar (Kalyan Nagar Post, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining anomalous user behavior in connection with an online application are...