ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,701, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Approval workflows for anomalous user behavior" was invented by Vikram Kapoor (Cupertino, 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.), Hoang Viet Nguyen (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting anomalous behavior using a browser extension, including: gathering first information describing activity associated with a user and generated by a browser extensi...