ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,190, issued on July 8, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Adaptive scanning" was invented by Daniel Trivellato (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Kairo Francisco de Araujo (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive scanning is described. The adaptive scanning may include performing a passive scan of communications associated with a device, where the passive scan comprises observing one or more communications of the device over a network. One or more attributes associated with the device based on the passive scan are determined and an active scan of the device is performed based on the one o...