US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 29 for "Proactive detection of vulnerabilities in a data network security fabric" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,479, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Proactive detection of vulnerabilities in a data network security fabric" was invented by Jordan Edward Thompson (Vancouver, Canada), Jerrod Robert Seger (Port Coquitlam, Canada) and Mark Derek Westerhof (Port Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network gateway interrogates a plurality of network devices to collect security state data and operational state data on a periodic basis. A vulnerability resolution module to automatically uploads a security report and downloads actions (e.g., updates to operating system, configurations or policies) fr...