US Patent Issued to FORTINET on Sept. 22 for "Correlating distinct events to detect security threats" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,799, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Correlating distinct events to detect security threats" was invented by Michael A. Bentley (Los Gatos, Calif.), George C. Caragea (Redwood City, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Correlating distinct events to detect security threats, including: receiving data describing an event; identifying a plurality of correlated events by correlating, in response to receiving the data describing the event, the event with one or more other events, wherein the one or more other events occurred before the event; determining a severi...