US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Oct. 21 for "Role-based permission by a data platform" (New York, California, New Jersey, Washington, Virginia, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,279, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Role-based permission by a data platform" was invented by Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Bao Nguyen (Newcastle, Wash.), Kenneth Beasley (Herndon, Va.), Joshua L. Vertes (Venice, Calif.), Adin Aoki (Union, Ky.), Brandon Maister (New York), Ravi Kiran Kumar (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sowmya A Karmali (Tustin, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes accessing data representative of a first role associated with a set of permissions with respect to resources within the compute environment and ...