ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,567, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Dynamic device persona identification in a network" was invented by Chinlin Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Uyen T. Chau (Roseville, Calif.), Faraz Ahmed (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Lianjie Cao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system (NMS) that can provision and manage a network is provided. During operation, the NMS can determine, for a respective network device in the network, connectivity information indicating how the network device is connected within the network and a device profile of the network dev...