ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,818, issued on March 25, was assigned to TWEENZNET LTD. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"System and method of discovering a network asset from a network sample" was invented by Aviv Yehezkel (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Eyal Elyashiv (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of discovering computer network assets, including: identifying, by a processor, in sampled traffic over at least one computer network, an internet protocol (IP) address of a node communicating over at least one port, wherein the at least one port is associated with an asset type, determining, by the processor, a volume of traffic associated...