ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,734, issued on May 13.
"Monitoring hierarchical asset groups" was invented by Erick Anthony Dean (Piedmont, Calif.), Jindrich Dinga (Los Altos, Calif.) and Marvin Herville Green (Benicia, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring hierarchical asset groups includes the operations of: receiving a plurality of asset group configuration parameters comprising one or more association specifications, each association specification defining an association between an asset and a corresponding asset group of a plurality of asset groups of an asset hierarchy; receiving definitions of one or more asset group metrics, wherein e...