US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Nov. 4 for "Risk engine that utilizes key performance indicators" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,996, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Risk engine that utilizes key performance indicators" was invented by Trevor A. Welsh (Sherborn, Mass.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Risk engine using key performance indicators, including: monitoring network activity associated with a customer to identify one or more infrastructure risks; calculating, based on the identified one or more infrastructure risks, a key performance indicator (KPI); and presenting, via a user interface, a comparison of a risk metric associated with the customer to one or more other risk metrics cor...