US Patent Issued to Forescout Technologies on July 22 for "Enhanced device classification including crowdsourced classifications for increased accuracy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,646, issued on July 22, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced device classification including crowdsourced classifications for increased accuracy" was invented by Erick Ingleby (San Francisco) and Nirmal F. Rajarathnam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies for classifying a device on a network are described. A method includes capturing device information corresponding to a device on a network. The method inputs unstructured crowdsourced data on the network into a machine learning model to produce structured crowdsourced data. The method classifie...