ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,646, issued on July 1, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for validating a virtual workload signature from a software repository" was invented by Amir Lande Blau (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Bar Magnezi (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the device may include detecting a virtual instance deployed in a computing environment, the virtual instance deployed based on a software image. In addition, the device may include detecting an image name of the software image. The device may include accessing an image software repository to retrieve the software image base...