ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,033, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual I LP (Atlanta).

"Services for entity trust conveyances" was invented by James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Nigel Bradley (McDonough, Ga.) and Timothy Innes (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Services for trust conveyances of entities can be provided and managed. In connection with a transaction between first and second devices, a trust management component (TMC) can indicate trust levels of entities associated with the devices with regard to the transaction and/or an action attempted by an entity. With regard to an action attempted by the first...