ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,924, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cycognito Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Techniques for detecting persistent digital assets on an external attack surface" was invented by Dima Potekhin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amit Amar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Rob N Gurzeev (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting persistent digital assets in an attack surface of a networked computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: continuously detecting digital asset information from a networked computing environment; updating a representation of a digital asset in response to determining that the digital asset...