US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 27 for "Secure placement of processing elements" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,292, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Secure placement of processing elements" was invented by Henry Chiu (San jose, Calif.), Jason A. Nikolai (Rochester, Minn.), Jingdong Sun (Rochester, Minn.), Paul Gerver (Rochester, Minn.) and Bradley William Fawcett (Byron, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one job in a data processing environment is split into two or more processing elements. A determination is made whether at least one processing element of the two or more processing elements include sensitive data. In response to determining that at least one processing elem...