ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,937, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Location-based identification of anomalous activity on a user device" was invented by Vikram Kapoor (Saratoga, Calif.), Harish Kumar Bharat Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Weifei Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Los Altos, Calif.), Theron Tock (Mountain View, Calif.), Ying Xie (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Location-based identification of anomalous activity on a user device, including: gathering information describing one or more destinations associated with a user; determining, based on the ...