ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,039, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of Plymouth (Plymouth, Great Britain).

"Bridge network device manager" was invented by Avanthika Vineetha Harish (Plymouth, Great Britain), Kevin David Jones (Ivybridge, Great Britain) and Kimberly Kim-chi Tam (Ivybridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a bridge network device manager can include performing a first query on a device of a network of operational technology devices; gathering first feature information of the device based on the first query; generating a first instance of a device record that includes the first feature information; selecting a seco...