ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,686, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-tenant data protection in edge computing environments" was invented by Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Timothy Verrall (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches for implementing multi-tenant data protection are described. In an edge computing system deployment, a system includes memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a workflow execution plan that includes workload metadata definin...