ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,139, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System-metrics based trust scoring in a zero-trust computing environment" was invented by Deepak Gaikwad (Natick, Mass.), Judith A. Furlong (Natick, Mass.), Raj Suryavanshi (Leander, Texas), Biraj Silwal (Pflugerville, Texas), Berke Belge (Westford, Mass.), Chenhao Huang (Acton, Mass.) and Sarthak Madrecha (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods control access to resources in a zero-trust computing environment. Requests for access to resources are tracked, including tracking determinations to grant or deny requested access. Bas...