ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,734, issued on April 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Blockchain and cloud connectivity-based self-registration and inventorying of enterprise IoT assets" was invented by Bugra Karabey (Redmond, Wash.), Andre Oneal Alfred (Redmond, Wash.), Tvisha Rajesh Gangwani (Philadelphia), Priyatham Reddy Allala (Monroe, Wash.) and Sasikumar Natarajan (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide for the self-registration and automatic inventorying of enterprise Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in an enterprise environment. An asset inventory agent on a network among many networks (i.e...