US Patent Issued to FORTINET on Sept. 22 for "Vulnerability exceptions for monitoring a compute environment" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,800, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Vulnerability exceptions for monitoring a compute environment" was invented by Shubhanan D. Bakre (Campbell, Calif.), Chitra P. Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Deepak B. Dalvi (Lexington, Mass.), Nolan K. Karpinski (San Francisco), Naveen Kumar Bibinagar (Austin, Texas) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method for monitoring a cloud environment may include determining, based on a scan of a compute environment, a set of vulnerable software components in the compute environment, identifying a subset of the vulnerable s...