ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,414, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for protecting cloud native environments based on cloud resource access" was invented by Liron Levin (Kefar Sava, Israel), Michael Kletselman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dima Stopel (Herzliya, Israel) and John Morello (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for method for protecting cloud native environments based on cloud resource access. The method includes determining a mapping of a plurality of cloud assets to a plurality of cloud resources based on resource access data for a cloud native environment, wherein th...