US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 8 for "Tracking infrastructure as code (IaC) asset lifecycles" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,626, issued on July 8, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Tracking infrastructure as code (IaC) asset lifecycles" was invented by Vikram R. Varakantam (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew J. Armstrong (Gilroy, Calif.), Chitra P. Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Divyang J. Soni (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring tracking infrastructure as code (IaC) asset lifecycles, including: generating a configuration snapshot describing a configuration of an infrastructure as code (IaC) asset; comparing the configuration snapshot to data describing a previous configuration of the IaC asset;...