ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,473, issued on April 8, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Texas).

"Leased infrastructure trust domain audits" was invented by Srinivas Gowda (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shyam Iyer (Cedar Park, Texas) and Syama Poluri (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing trust and security for leased infrastructure includes: detecting a first audit event directed to the leased infrastructure; initiating, in response to detecting the first audit event, an execution of a first trust audit; making a first determination, based on a result of the first trust audit, that the first audit event is a verifie...