ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,182, issued on May 20, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Customer onboarding and integration with anomaly detection systems" was invented by David McAleer (Belfast, Great Britain), David M. Hazekamp (Tinley Park, Ill.), Declan Wilson (Craigavon, Great Britain), Ellie Goggin (Belfast, Great Britain) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for customer environment integration with anomaly detection systems are disclosed. The methods include receiving cloud computing environment data for the cloud computing environment; generating, based on the received cloud computing envir...