US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Dec. 9 for "Detecting package execution for threat assessments" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,052, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detecting package execution for threat assessments" was invented by Patrice Godefroid (Mercer Island, Wash.), Curtis Condra (Seattle) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting package execution for threat assessments, including: receiving, from an agent on a host of a cloud deployment, data describing one or more active packages installed on the host, wherein each of the one or more active packages are identified by the agent from a plurality of packages in response to detecting a corresponding file open event; and generating a ...