ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,951, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Uniform enclave interface" was invented by Matthew Gingell (Woodinville, Wash.), Peter Gonda (Seattle), Alexander Thomas Cope (Seattle), Sergey Karamov (Redmond, Wash.), Keith Moyer (Kirkland, Wash.), Uday Ramesh Savagaonkar (Redmond, Wash.) and Chong Cai (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A uniform enclave interface is provided for creating and operating enclaves across multiple different types of backends and system configurations. For instance, an enclave manager may be created in an untrusted environment of a host computing device. The encla...