ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,488, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for analyzing external exposure in cloud environments" was invented by Matilda Lidgi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shai Keren (Tel Aviv, Israel), Raaz Herzberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avi Tal Lichtenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel) and Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing active inspection of a cloud computing environment includes receiving at least one network path to access a first resource, wherein the first resource is a cloud object deployed in the cloud computing environment, and potentia...