ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,847, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Normalyze Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Data posture analysis in a cloud environment using database snapshots" was invented by Ravishankar Ganesh Ithal (Los Altos, Calif.) and Yang Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to streamlined analysis of security posture of a cloud environment. In particular, the disclosed technology relates to a system that analyzes data posture in a cloud environment database using a snapshot of the database. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to access a database in the cloud environment, wherein...