US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Application discovery engine in a security management system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,839, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Application discovery engine in a security management system" was invented by Shay Chriba Sakazi (Herzliya, Israel), Fady Copty (Haifa, Israel), Tamer Salman (Haifa, Israel) and Ofir Monza (Mishmar David, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing data security posture management using an application discovery engine in a security management system. Application discovery supports identifying and mapping various applications within a computing environment. In particular, application discov...