ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,377, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Edge device registration for integration with a data intake system" was invented by Alan Sung (Richmond Hill, Canada), Anthony Ng (Toronto), Jonathan Yeung (Mississauga, Canada), Neel Mehta (Toronto), Joel Jacob (Etobicoke, Canada), Rodrigo Paulo Quaresma (Burlington, Canada), Warren Shum (Mississauga, Canada), William Huang (Vaughan, Canada), Yi Chien Lee (Oakville, Canada), Masrur Mahmood (Mississauga, Canada), Allyson Aberg (Toronto), Qi Shu (Markham, Canada) and Neha Kumari (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge device equipp...