ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,475, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tanium Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Managing unmanageable devices on an enterprise network" was invented by Crispin Cowan (Fall City, Wash.) and James D. Hegge (Battleground, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are described for managing unmanageable devices in an enterprise network. In particular, techniques are described for allowing normally unmanageable endpoint devices to be managed by a management service. An agent establishes a connection with a management service in accordance with a management protocol. The agent collects endpoint data assoc...