ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,272, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Reducing resource consumption spikes in an anomaly detection framework" was invented by Sathish Kumar Subramanian (Cupertino, Calif.), Nandish Nanjappa (Fremont, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reducing resource consumption spikes in an anomaly detection framework, including: gathering information describing historical job execution associated with a plurality of customers; assigning, based on the information describing historical job execution, each of the plurality of customers to a particular grouping of a plurality...