ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,510, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Merging and unmerging entity representations via resolver trees" was invented by James Robert Plush (Lake Forest, Calif.), Timothy Jason Berger (Eastvale, Calif.) and Ramnath Venugopalan (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital security system can store data associated with entities in resolver trees. If the digital security system determines that two resolver trees are likely representing the same entity, the digital security system can use a merge operation to merge the resolver trees into a single resolver tree that represents the entity....