ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,700, issued on May 12, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Behavior-based asset classifications" was invented by Ryan Inghilterra (Carsbad, Calif.), Shaefer Drew (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Michael Brautbar (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, systems, and computer-readable media for dynamic behavior-based asset classification are described herein. An asset classification system can detect and receive data associated with a host computer, determine, based on the data, a behavior associated with the host computer, assign the host computer a server classification based on the determination that the beh...