ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,823, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for validating a signature of a virtual workload image in runtime" 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 aspects, a device includes selecting a signed software image for deployment in a computing environment, the software image signed utilizing a private cryptographic key of an asymmetrical cryptography scheme. Also, the device may include accessing a public cryptographic key corresponding to the private cryptographic key. Furthermore, the ...