ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,928, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Attestation-as-a-service for confidential computing" was invented by Yeluri Raghuram (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Haidong Xia (Folsom, Calif.), Uttam Shetty (Granite Bay, Calif.), Anil Rao (Menlo Park, Calif.), Sudhir Subbarao Bangalore (Bangalore, India), Raghavender Nagarajan (Bangalore, India), Kekuut Hoomkwap (Clarksburg, Va.) and Wei Peng (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are described for implementing trust authority or trust attestation verification operations, including for Trust-as-a-Service or Attestation-as-a-Servi...