ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,968, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Use of ephemeral workloads to monitor compute environments" was invented by Neil Chao (Cupertino, Calif.), Chonghan Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Craig E. Skinfill (Harleysville, Pa.), Dmytro Ilchenko (Cary, N.C.), Anand Natarajan (San Ramon, Calif.), Meghan Kast (Mountain View, Calif.), Derek G. Murray (Redwood City, Calif.), Rui Zhang (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to use of ephemeral workloads to monitor compute environments are described."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2024, under Applicati...