ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,487, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cyera Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Cybersecurity scanning techniques" was invented by Roee Babayoff (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yuval Lavie (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tomer Avisar (Rishon LeTsiyon, Israel), Gal Pollak (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yotam Segev (New York), Itamar Bar-Ilan (New York), Yonatan Itai (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Lior Glazer (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scanning. A method includes identifying an entity in a computing environment based on a scan of the computing environment, wherein the entity is defined with respect to a relationship between the entity and...