ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,200, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for improved virtual instance inspection utilizing disk cloning" was invented by Daniel Hershko Shemesh (Givat-Shmuel, Israel), Yarin Miran (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel) and Yinon Costica (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for inspecting live virtual instance in a cloud computing environment for cybersecurity threats utilizes a disk cloning technique. The method includes selecting a live virtual instance in a cloud computing environment, wherein the live virtual instance ...