ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,946, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Securing sensitive data in edge devices using steganography" was invented by Roman Bober (Ashdod, Israel), Stav Sapir (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing data in a deployment comprising edge devices are disclosed. The data may include sensitive data. The sensitive data may be managed by embedding the sensitive data in digital content data in a steganographic manner. After embedding the sensitive data, the digital content data may be transmitted between edge devices through ...