US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Sept. 16 for "Virtual data streams in a data streaming platform" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,552, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Virtual data streams in a data streaming platform" was invented by Gurunatha Karaje (Fremont, Calif.), Helgi K. Sigurbjarnarson (Seattle), Naga Venkata Koundinya Muppalla (San Jose, Calif.), Sai Samrat Karlapudi (Foster City, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving, by a data streaming platform from a client, a write request to write data to a data stream; storing, by the data streaming platform and based on the receiving the write request, the data in a particular partition of a pluralit...