US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Jan. 27 for "Risk scoring based on entity correlation" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,836, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Risk scoring based on entity correlation" was invented by Harish Kumar Bharat Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Weifei Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Trevor A. Welsh (Sherborn, Mass.), Vikram Kapoor (Cupertino, Calif.), Theron Tock (Mountain View, Calif.), Ying Xie (Cupertino, Calif.), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Los Altos, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Risk scoring based on entity correlation, including: detecting an event associated with a plurality of entities; calculating a plurality of risk scores based on a plurality of correla...