ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,229, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for cross entity correlation of user accounts in cloud computing environments" was invented by Ron Konigsberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Harel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Dan Becker (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for cross-entity ephemeral resource correlation to compute entities for applying controls in a cybersecurity system is presented. The method includes detecting an IP address in a record of a network event in a cloud computing environment, wherein the IP address is an ephemeral resource which is allocated for a limited dura...