ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,874, issued on July 7, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Data serving layer for data platform" was invented by Ulfar Erlingsson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Helgi K. Sigurbjarnarson (Seattle), Ross T. Bunker (Seattle) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method for querying multiple datasets may include accessing a plurality of datasets including data associated with monitoring one or more compute environments and ingested at varying time intervals, receiving a query request for information that depends on the data included in multiple datasets of the plurality of datasets, queryin...