ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,783, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nozomi Networks Sagi (Mendrisio, Switzerland).

"Network monitoring system and method including software agents" was invented by Alessandro Cavallaro Corti (Varese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network monitoring system (100) comprising: a communication network (NT) comprising a plurality of nodes (N1-NN) and a plurality of node connections (E1-EP); wherein each node comprises an asset (AS1-ASF) configured to receive/transmit packets; a plurality of software agents (AG1-AGN) each installed in at least part of said plurality of nodes; each software agent being configured to redirect packets...