The term "hardware inventory" probably has distinct meaning to readers by default, and I feel that many security practitioners would, quite reasonably, read "hardware inventory" as the set of hardware being managed by or affecting their enterprise; but, the definition clearly states that this term should be strictly limited to the set of hardware components comprising an endpoint. In other words, the term likely has a more general meaning than its definition intends. Then, it seems that we could fix this by changing the label of the term to reflect its narrow definition.
The term "hardware inventory" probably has distinct meaning to readers by default, and I feel that many security practitioners would, quite reasonably, read "hardware inventory" as the set of hardware being managed by or affecting their enterprise; but, the definition clearly states that this term should be strictly limited to the set of hardware components comprising an endpoint. In other words, the term likely has a more general meaning than its definition intends. Then, it seems that we could fix this by changing the label of the term to reflect its narrow definition.