ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,208, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Infrastructure as code (IaC) scanner for infrastructure component security" was invented by Jeevan Reddy Ragula (Hyderabad, India), Abhijeet Singh Rawat (Hyderabad, India), Shyam Baitmangalkar (Hyderabad, India), Aparna Saripaka (Hyderabad, India), Robert Valek (Odessa, Ukraine) and Oleksii Stetsyk (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanner for infrastructure component security. Various embodiments include steps of receiving one or more files for security scanning; extracting and parsing one or ...