ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,135, issued on July 15, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Enabling enhanced network security operation by leveraging context from multiple security agents" was invented by Udi Yavo (Herzlia, Israel), Roy Katmor (San Francisco) and Ido Kelson (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for synergistically combining network security technologies to improve automated response to security incidents. An endpoint security agent running on the endpoint device detects an incident, generates a security incident alert by proactively collecting data regarding the incident, and causes a ne...