ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,802, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detecting shadow information technology (IT) using network activity logs" was invented by Weifei Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Divyang J. Soni (Marysville, Wash.), Harish Kumar Bharat Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Theron Tock (Mountain View, Calif.), Ying Xie (Cupertino, Calif.), Vikram Kapoor (Cupertino, Calif.), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Los Altos, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting shadow information technology (IT) using network activity logs, including: gathering, from a client device, first information describing ...