ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,977, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Trideum Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Systems and methods of monitoring and controlling remote assets" was invented by Kurt Lessmann (Madison, Ala.), Mark Riecken (Maitland, Fla.) and Michael J. O'Connor (Harvest, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for monitoring distributed computing events are disclosed. The method includes defining parameters for a plurality of monitored assets, receiving status data for each monitored asset during the event, determining if each monitored asset's status is within the defined parameters during the event, providing an ...