US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Oct. 14 for "Attack path risk mitigation by a data platform" (California, Maryland, Washington, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,474, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Attack path risk mitigation by a data platform" was invented by Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Nolan K. Karpinski (San Francisco), Xiaofei Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Christopher Hall (Baltimore), Matti A. Vanninen (Cary, Calif.), Carsten Varming (Brooklyn, N.Y.), John Payyappillil John (Seattle), Nicholas W. McNutt (Kodak, Tenn.) and Sowmya A. Karmali (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes scanning a compute environment associated with an entity and identifying one or more attac...