ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,978, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Third-party proxies for crypto-based DCF" 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 receiving, by a trust provider from a third party proxy, an indication that the third party proxy has instantiated a smart contract on behalf of the trust provider, connecting wallets of a customer to an agent of a data confidence fabric, in response to a request from an application, providing a trust se...