ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,106, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Ongoing trigger-based scanning of cyber-physical assets" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for trigger-based scanning of cyber-physical assets, including a distributed operating system, parameter evaluation engine, at least one cyber-physical asset, at least one crypt-ledger, a network, and a scanner that detects trigger conditions and events and performs scans of cyber-physical assets based on the trigger and any relevant stored scan rules before storing scan results as ti...