ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,686, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mondoo Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for querying data" was invented by Christian Dominik Richter (Los Angeles) and Christoph Hartmann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for querying data. The method comprises: (a) receiving a input query from a user to examine an object; (b) traversing a graph to identify one or more resources for collecting data based on the input query, the relational structure is a multi-layered stack; and (c) aggregating the data to construct a view for the object. The view comprises information about metadata of the obje...