US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Feb. 10 for "Tracking and relating discovered security issues over time" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,577, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Tracking and relating discovered security issues over time" was invented by Christien R. Rioux (Leesburg, Va.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracking and relating discovered security issues over time, including: identifying, based on a static code analysis scan of a non-executable representation of an application, a vulnerability in the application; gathering information describing one or more events associated with the vulnerability in the application; and generating, based on the information, a time-series analysis of the ...