US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 10 for "Cloud based confidential workload provisioning" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,384, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Cloud based confidential workload provisioning" was invented by Viswanath Ponnuru (Bangalore, India), Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Sumanth Vidyadhara (Bangalore, India) and Judith A. Furlong (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Confidential workload provisioning is disclosed. To overcome various hardware constraints, a workload (e.g., image or container) to be executed confidentially in an enclave is verified and then re-signed by the cloud service. Re-signing the workload allows workloads to be provisioned confidentially in enclaves or other se...