ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,360, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for detecting software lifecycle vulnerabilities" was invented by Shay Zadik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mattan Shalev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Kozoshnik (Petah Tikva, Israel), Omri Kornblau (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yaniv Shaked (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alon Weiss (Tel Aviv, Israel), Addi Grinboum (Ramat Sharon, Israel), Idan Shoval (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Mika Maymon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Maayan Laav (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for initiating a remediation action based on an End-Of-Life (EOL) date of a software component deployed in...