ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,003, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Capturing and using application-level data to monitor a compute environment" was invented by Chirag P. Pandya (Sammamish, Wash.), Alex Ramachandran Nirmala (Cupertino, Calif.), Anil K. Nanduri (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Bapat (Seattle), Srivenkatesh Kumar Vaithianathan (Dublin, Calif.), Connor A Brooks (Redwood City, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes receiving, by a data platform configured to monitor the compute environment, runtime workload data collected by an agent deployed to the compute ...