ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,999, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Secure anomaly detection using federated learning" was invented by Sunpreet Singh Arora (Union City, Calif.), Panagiotis Chatzigiannis (Fairfax, Va.), Sebastian Meiser (Lubeck, Germany), Srinivasan Raghuraman (Cambridge, Mass.), Peter Byerley Rindal (San Francisco), Yizhen Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuhang Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hao Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Mahdi Zamani (Mercer Island, Wash.), Harshal Bhadreshkumar Shah (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew Beams (Christiansburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for perf...