ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,751, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for device identity management" was invented by Nancy Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeffery Rodd Daviss (Port Coquitlam, Canada), Shiladitya Dey (Kolkata, India) and Brian Somers (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes onboarding a vendor to an object model, generating a component class in the object model, generating a device class in the object model, and generating a device in the object model. The vendor is associated with a vendor identity, the component class is associate...