ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,205, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for endpoint management" was invented by Jon Oberheide (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Adam Goodman (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Michael Hanley (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Peter Johnson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Omar Abduljaber (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and James Barclay (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for mitigating security vulnerabilities of a computer network by detecting a management status of an endpoint computing device attempting to authenticate to one or more computing resources accessible via the computer network includes: de...