ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,022, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ivanti Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Endpoint assessment deduplication" was invented by Robin Rowe (Daresbury, Great Britain) and Jack Smith (Daresbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security compliance may be facilitated for multiple endpoints associated with a network. Multiple batch endpoint assessments may be performed. Each batch endpoint assessment of the multiple batch endpoint assessments may include receiving multiple status indicators associated with at least a subset of endpoints of the multiple endpoints. For each batch endpoint assessment of the multiple batch endpoint a...