ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,102, issued on March 3, was assigned to Crowdstrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for timing-based network entity resolution" was invented by Daniel W. Brown (Ipswich, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first request message is received from a first device that specifies a destination network address and identifier for a second device, and a first timestamp. A first acceptance message is received from the second device that specifies a destination network address and identifier for the first device, and a second timestamp. A second request message is received from the first device that specifies the destination net...