ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,040, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ivanti Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Device management system migration" was invented by Brett Smith (West Jordan, Utah), Greg Pola (Concord, Calif.), Michael Nielson (South Jordan, Utah), Christopher Achilli (South Jordan, Utah) and Thom Allen (South Jordan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of device management system migration includes scraping device and group structure data from a first system implemented to manage a network of devices. The group structure data is indicative of an arrangement of the devices. The method includes identifying device groups. The method includes building...