ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,919, issued on July 21, was assigned to FORESCOUT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device classification based on rank" was invented by Arun Raghuramu (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yang Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Siying Yang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies for device classification are described. In certain aspects, one or more properties are selected based on associated respective ranks. The selected one or more properties are used with information associated with the device to determine a classification. The classification may then be stored."...