ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,240, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Application-aware DCF data authentication" was invented by Pankaj Pande (Carlingford, Australia) and Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, at a node of a data confidence fabric, data from a data source, determining, by the node, whether the data source is listed in a portfolio of data sources, when the data source is listed in the portfolio, processing, by the node, the data, when the data source is not listed in the portfolio, performing, by the node, an analysis of the data, when the a...