US Patent Issued to Fortinet on May 12 for "Generating the ancestry of a deployment in a cloud environment" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,686, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Generating the ancestry of a deployment in a cloud environment" was invented by Christien R. Rioux (Leesburg, Va.), Peter W. O'Hearn (London), David McAleer (Belfast, Great Britain), Charles Y. Kim (Jersey City, N.J.), Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sowmya Karmali (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating the ancestry of a deployment in a cloud environment, including: gathering information describing a deployment in a cloud environment; and generating, based on the information, an ancestry of the deployment describing one or more relationshi...