ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,231, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Normalyze Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Cloud scanner with database schema detection" was invented by Ravishankar Ganesh Ithal (Los Altos, Calif.) and Yang Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to a computing system configured to execute a cloud scanner in a cloud environment to discover one or more data stores in the cloud environment and return metadata representing a data schema of data objects in the one or more data stores, traverse the data objects in the one or more data stores based on the metadata to identify a plurality of data items, ex...