ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,756, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Render high workflow execution reliability using immutable security context" was invented by Yi Fang (Sharon, Mass.), Georgi Abelovich Yaralov (Travelers Rest, S.C.), Chooi Peng Low (Plano, Texas) and Ching-Yun Chao (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Up front authorization of a workflow and a security context for workflow execution are disclosed. All possible authorizations that may be required by a workflow definition are identified up front. A requestor is allowed to execute the workflow only when the authorizations of the user include the autho...