US Patent Issued to Flexera Software on Aug. 26 for "Software recognition using tree-structured pattern matching rules for software asset management" (Norwegian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,708, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Flexera Software LLC (Itasca, Ill.).

"Software recognition using tree-structured pattern matching rules for software asset management" was invented by Kenneth Aas Hansen (Hamar, Norway), Rolf Georg Lunder (Lillehammer, Norway), Lars Kohler (Hamar, Norway) and Peter Bjorkman (Trangsund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of software identification in a software asset management system is provided. The method comprises receiving software inventory data from a user terminal and processing the software inventory data, wherein processing the software inventory data comprise identifying s...