ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,951, issued on May 20, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Secure enclave pathing configuration for data confidence fabrics" was invented by Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.) and Kenneth Durazzo (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes performing a secure boot of hardware at a node of a data confidence fabric, creating an artifact that includes information concerning the secure boot, storing the artifact, receiving a data stream at the node, annotating data of the data stream with trust metadata, and associating the artifact with the data. An immutable ledger entry m...