US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Sept. 2 for "Gathering and presenting information related to common vulnerabilities and exposures" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,702, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Gathering and presenting information related to common vulnerabilities and exposures" was invented by Christiaan de Wet (Wallingford, Great Britain) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gathering and presenting information related to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, including: gathering, from a plurality of data sources, information describing a Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE); generating, based on the information, an enriched model object for the CVE comprising portions of the information from different data sources o...