ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,582, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enclave interactions" was invented by Anna Sapek (Kirkland, Wash.), Uday Ramesh Savagaonkar (Redmond, Wash.), Jeffrey Thomas Andersen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Thomas Michael Roeder (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide various methods relating to enclaves. For instance, a method of authentication for an enclave entity with a second entity may include receiving, by one or more processors of a host computing device of the enclave entity, a request and an assertion of identity for the second entity, the assertion includi...