ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,567, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cyera Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Techniques for discovering data store locations via initial scanning" was invented by Yotam Segev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Bar-Ilan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yonatan Itai (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shay Makayes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shani Beracha (Tel Aviv, Israel), Omer Duchovne (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itay Fainshtein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for discovering data store locations. A method includes reading, for each disk of a plurality of disks deployed in a cloud environment, only a portion of a snapshot of the disk accessed via a c...