US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Sept. 23 for "Runtime workload data-based modification of permissions for an entity" (California, New Jersey, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,430, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Runtime workload data-based modification of permissions for an entity" was invented by Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Sowmya A. Karmali (Tustin, Calif.), Christopher E. Pedigo (Menlo Park, Calif.), Xiaofei Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kenneth Beasley (Herndon, Va.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes accessing, by a data platform configured to monitor a compute environment, permissions data representative of a set of permissions that specify how an entity is entitled to interact with resou...