ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,471, issued on Sept. 9.
"Scalable network monitoring platform" was invented by Laurie Benson (Kingsville, Md.) and Casey Flinspach (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable monitoring platform for use with a target network having a network management device and multiple managed devices. The platform includes a remote monitoring server and a monitoring device co-located with the target network. The monitoring device is configured to communicate directly with the managed devices using a network management protocol, and to retrieve management data using separately generated and transmitted targeted requests to each managed d...