ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,573, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Container event monitoring using kernel space communication" was invented by Anil K. Nanduri (Fremont, Calif.), Prakash Jalan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matti A. Vanninen (Cary, N.C.), Ammar G. Ekbote (Renton, Wash.), Alex Ramachandran Nirmala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods monitor a cloud compute environment. An example method includes: opening, by an agent deployed in a cloud environment, a communication channel between the agent and a kernel of an operating system of a node within ...