ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,368, issued on July 1, was assigned to Axonius Solutions Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Data hygiene for asset management" was invented by Oded Eliyahu Shimon (Holon, Israel), Guy Pergal (Herzliya, Israel) and Avidor Bartov (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a consistent dataset describing a computing environment, comprising: accessing at least one set of entity description records, each entity description record describing one of a plurality of entities of a computing environment, each entity description record comprising a plurality of attribute values each of one of a plurality of entity attributes; ...