ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,058, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for detecting vulnerability of data in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel), Yinon Costica (Tel Aviv, Israel), George Pisha (Giv'atayim, Israel), Yaniv Shaked (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Avi Tal Lichtenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting sensitive data vulnerability in a cloud computing environment detects sensitive data in the cloud computing environment, and determines reachability parameters of a workload having access to the sensitive...