US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 17 for "Scoring of events in an edge-based data platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,935, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Scoring of events in an edge-based data platform" was invented by Harish Kumar Bharat Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Weifei Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scoring of events in an edge-based data platform, including: detecting an event associated with a plurality of entities and an event type; calculating, based on a prevalence of each entity in events of the event type and a classification of each entity, a risk score for the event; and generating an alert based on the risk score for the event."

The p...