ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,220, issued on April 22, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for applying a policy on a network path" was invented by Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Matilda Lidgi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shai Keren (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Eliran Marom (Yehud-Monoson, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for applying a policy on a network path is presented. The method includes: selecting a reachable resource having a network path to access the reachable resource, wherein the reachable resource is deployed in a cloud computing environment, having access to an external network; actively inspecting an external network p...