US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Aug. 12 for "Online code similarity and maliciousness searching using a vector database" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,849, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Online code similarity and maliciousness searching using a vector database" was invented by Jeremy Allen Wildsmith (Burnaby, Canada) and Mounir Elgharabawy (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques relate generally to computer networks, and more specifically, for a web browser having a web browser extension for evaluating web requests using internal coordination to make asynchronous information synchronously available, prior to dispatching the web requests."

The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/375,518.

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