ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,125, issued on May 27, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for automated anomaly detection in univariate time-series" was invented by Manjunath Channappagoudar (Bangalore, India), Arvind Shyam Verma (Bengaluru, India), Mohit Choudhary (Bentonville, Ark.), Jingying Zhang (Beaumont, Texas), Juan Gomez (Bentonville, Ark.) and Lokesh Kumar Sambasivan (Tirupati, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of anomaly detection in time-series are disclosed. A time-series dataset is received and a set of segments is iteratively defined from the time-series dataset by identifying a set of ...