ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,850, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Virsec Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application aware software asset inventory" was invented by Satya V. Gupta (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments create application-aware software asset inventories for software assets deployed upon computer networks associated with organizations. An example embodiment extracts configuration information pertaining to an application installed on a workload deployed upon a network. In turn, an application topology file is constructed from the extracted configuration information. The constructed application topology file serves as an ...