ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,970, issued on July 15, was assigned to Axonius Solutions Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Maintaining consistent unique identifiers in asset management systems" was invented by Eli Shay (Harish, Israel), Oded Eliyahu Shimon (Holon, Israel), Ben Shimon Hazout (Gan Yavne, Israel), Avital Yahel (Harish, Israel) and Ran Avital (Omer, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for maintaining consistent unique identifiers in asset management systems is disclosed. The invention computes a unique identifier for an asset by analyzing digital records associated with digital asset descriptors and received from multiple management doma...