US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Sept. 2 for "Community-based generation of policies for a data platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,701, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Community-based generation of policies for a data platform" was invented by Vikram R. Varakantam (Fremont, Calif.), Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Bharath Kolar Venkat (San Jose, Calif.), George B. Spofford (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mandar Pimpale (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed data platform may be configured to access a custom policy developed by a particular client entity that uses the data platform. The custom policy may invoke a query that targets a target dataset ingested from a cloud environment and stored in a data store...