US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 21 for "Tracking computer devices in extended detection and response systems" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,955, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tracking computer devices in extended detection and response systems" was invented by Tomas Jirsik (Brno, Czech Republic), Cenek Skarda (Praha Bechovice, Czech Republic), David Sislak (Prague) and Tomas Kuthan (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for mapping local device identifiers used in monitoring data from different sources to a common global identifier to enable correlation of monitoring events related to the same device. The techniques can be used in the context of an Extended Detection and Response (XDR)...