US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 10 for "Subscription-based model with protection against billing avoidance" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,391, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Subscription-based model with protection against billing avoidance" was invented by Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.), Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas), Ahmed Khalid (Cork, Ireland) and Mustafa Al-Bado (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes connecting a digital wallet of a customer to an agent of a data confidence fabric, receiving, from an application, a request for performance of a trust function, by the data confidence fabric, with respect to customer data, processing the customer data by applying the trust func...