US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 17 for "Absolute risk score generation by a data platform" (Maryland, California, Washington, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,936, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Absolute risk score generation by a data platform" was invented by Imani N. Palmer (Frederick, Md.), Nicholas W. McNutt (Kodak, Tenn.), Alessandro Panella (San Leandro, Calif.), Dan Wei (Fremont, Calif.), Jacob A. Kilby (San Francisco), Anil K. Nanduri (San Jose, Calif.), Ammar G. Ekbote (Renton, Wash.), Prashant Billore (San Jose, Calif.), Nolan K. Karpinski (San Francisco), Sowmya A. Karmali (Tustin, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes identifying, based on a scan of a compute environmen...