ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,527, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for signatureless virtual instance image verification in cloud computing environments" was invented by Lir Locker (Tel Aviv, Israel), Bar Magnezi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Lande Blau (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yaniv Joseph Oliver (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Or Heller (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for signatureless validation of objects in a computing environment, including artifacts, objects, files, virtual images, and the like. The method includes: detecting a request to deploy an instance based on a software artifact in the computin...