ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,995, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Tiered risk engine with user cohorts" was invented by Trevor A. Welsh (Sherborn, Mass.), Harish Kumar Bharat Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Weifei Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vikram Kapoor (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and products for a tiered risk engine with user cohorts, including: detecting one or more alerts associated with a user; determining, based on a corresponding risk for each alert of the one or more alerts, a risk score; and controlling access to one or more resources based on...