ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,107, issued on July 28, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Metadata-based data object detection and classification in cloud computing environments for data security posture management" was invented by Alma Raziel (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Elad Gabay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Liron Levin (Kfar Saba, Israel), Daniel Lazarev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Erez Harush (Tel Aviv, Israel) and George Pisha (Giv'atayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for classifying data objects for data security posture management (DSPM) in a cloud computing environment based on metadata are presented. The method includes detecting data objects...