ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,591, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Identification of anomalous telecommunication service usage" was invented by Subham Biswas (Maharashtra, India), Bharatwaaj Shankar (Chennai, India), Sudhakar X. Lanka (Hyderabad, India), Eswara P. Somarouthu (Plano, Texas) and Keerthi Gudur (Thiruvallur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for identifying anomalous behavior of users are provided. In an example, users of a telecommunication service provider may be segmented into a plurality of user segments based upon telecommunic...