ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,246, issued on April 8.

"3D collaborative visual command line system to visualize and manage networked endpoints" was invented by Wallon Walusayi (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes one or more virtual machines deployed on a network and connected to a server via one or more networks. Each virtual machine obtains and analyzes network traffic and constructs a local network map of devices based on the analysis. Information corresponding to the local network map of devices is provided to the server and the network server aggregates one or more local network maps of devices into a global network map of device...