ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,559, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Agentless attestation as a service" was invented by Nigel John Edwards (Bristol, Great Britain), Blaine R. Southam (Ft. Collins, Colo.), Luis E. Luciani Jr. (Houston), Darrell R. Haskell (Houston), Nicholas Mark Hawkins (Houston), Walton A. Rosen (Houston), Guilherme De Campos Magalhaes (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Kairo Cesar Pinto Tavares (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Timothy Pletcher (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for agentless attestation. Agentless attestation can measure the integri...