US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 25 for "Asset management identification key" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,963, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Asset management identification key" was invented by Alan Thomas O'Dwyer (Norwalk, Conn.) and John Guckian (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for asset management using an asset management identification key. The techniques include populating, based on input to a front-end portal, a plurality of fields including a plurality of attributes and a serial number of a device. The techniques further include hashing each of the plurality of fields. The techniques further include hashing a contiguous sequence of...