ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,471, issued on July 29, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Systems and methods for tracking assets across a distributed network environment" was invented by Byron Steven Pruitt (Lexington, Ky.), Jeffrey Alan Cole (Georgetown, Ky.) and James Matthew Downs (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking and searching the usage, flow or communication of assets are disclosed. Embodiments as disclosed herein may create and update a graph representing the assets in an enterprise, where the objects and relationships in the graph represent the assets, communications, users or relationship. Th...