ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,428, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Activity monitoring of a cloud compute environment based on container orchestration data" was invented by Julien Sobrier (Saratoga, Calif.), Ross T. Bunker (Seattle), Ashwin Jayaprakash (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ankita Bhargava (Fremont, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Activity monitoring of a cloud compute environment based on container orchestration data may be performed by a data platform. For example, the data platform may obtain audit log data generated by a container orchestrator within a cloud compute environment, ...