ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,948, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Verifying trust of a secure workspace that is formed of multiple layers with distributed ownership" was invented by Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India) and Amy Christine Nelson (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trust of a secure workspace that has multiple layers with distributed ownership can be verified. A management service can maintain a repository of layers for secure workspaces and a certificate vault storing certificates of the owners of the layers. The management service can also maintain workspace metadata defining secure...