US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Dec. 30 for "Anomaly-based on-demand collection of data by an agent for a data platform" (California, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,221, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Anomaly-based on-demand collection of data by an agent for a data platform" was invented by Anil K. Nanduri (Fremont, Calif.), Alex Ramachandran Nirmala (San Jose, Calif.), Ross T. Bunker (Seattle), Matti A. Vanninen (Cary, N.C.), Ammar G. Ekbote (Renton, Wash.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative data platform may receive, from an agent configuration deployed in a cloud environment and configured to monitor compute assets in the cloud environment, first data periodically collected by the agent configuration at a f...