US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Jan. 27 for "Cloud resource risk scenario assessment and remediation" (California, Maryland, Washington, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,837, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Cloud resource risk scenario assessment and remediation" was invented by Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Nolan K. Karpinski (San Francisco), Xiaofei Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Hall (Baltimore), John Payyappillil John (Seattle), Matti A. Vanninen (Cary, N.C.), Naveen Kumar Bibinagar (Austin, Texas), Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sowmya A. Karmali (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method for performing a risk scenario assessment and remediation may include identifying, based on posture data associated with ...