ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,083, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cyera Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for data discovery in cloud environments" was invented by Yotam Segev (New York), Itamar Bar-Ilan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yonatan Itai (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shay Makayes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shani Beracha (Tel Aviv, Israel), Omer Duchovne (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itay Fainshtein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for data discovery. A method includes performing a scan of a plurality of snapshots, each snapshot corresponding to a respective disk of a plurality of disks; identifying a plurality of data store files in the p...