ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,293, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Detection of stale data objects and associated cybersecurity risk" was invented by Matilda Lidgi (Haifa, Israel) and Liron Levin (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting stale objects in a cloud computing environment is presented. The method includes detecting a plurality of resources deployed in a cloud computing environment; generating for each resource a representation in a security database, the security database including a representation of the cloud computing environment; generating for each resource a state, based at least...