ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,899, issued on April 29, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for detecting sensitive data in cloud computing environments utilizing cloning" was invented by Raaz Herzberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avi Tal Lichtenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel), Moran Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yaniv Shaked (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yinon Costica (Tel Aviv, Israel), George Pisha (Giv'atayim, Israel), Daniel Hershko Shemesh (Givat-Shmuel, Israel) and Yarin Miran (Rishon Lezion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for agentless detection of sensitive data in a cloud computing ...