ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,897, issued on April 15, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for disk inspection utilizing disk cloning techniques" was invented by Daniel Hershko Shemesh (Givat-Shmuel, Israel), Yarin Miran (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel) and Yinon Costica (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for inspecting encrypted disks for a cybersecurity object using a custom key are disclosed. The method includes detecting an encrypted disk in a cloud computing environment, the cloud computing environment including a security policy service; authorizing a...