US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Nov. 11 for "Containerized agent for monitoring container activity in a compute environment" (American, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,578, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Containerized agent for monitoring container activity in a compute environment" was invented by Rushikesh P. Patil (Maharashtra, India), Japneet Singh (Surrey, Canada), Maximilien P. Fechner (Arlington, Mass.), Joseph M. Wilder (Natick, Mass.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containerized agent that is deployed to a compute node of a compute environment and that executes in both user space and kernel space of the compute node is disclosed. The containerized agent collects data associated with a first container entity that is...