ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,765, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Untrusted multi-party compute system" was invented by Keith Moyer (Kirkland, Wash.), Alex Wu (Seattle), Jiankun Lu (Mountain View, Calif.), Joseph Richey (Mountain View, Calif.) and Catalin Daniel Sandu (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a container associated with a first entity, the container executing a workload, the workload requiring access to private resources associated with a second entity. The method also includes obtaining encrypted resources including the private resources associated with the second entity. ...