ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,948, issued on March 18, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for analyzing network objects in a cloud environment" was invented by Shai Keren (Oporto, Portugal), Daniel Hershko Shemesh (Givat-Shmuel, Israel), Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel) and Avihai Berkovitz (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing textual insights on objects deployed in a cloud environment are provided. The method includes collecting object data on objects deployed in the cloud environment, wherein objects are deployed and operable at different layers of the cloud enviro...