ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,109, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Trusted execution broker" was invented by Stefan Thom (Snohomish, Wash.), Brian Telfer (Seattle) and Deepu C. Thomas (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trusted execution of a workload payload is brokered among multiple trusted execution platforms. The workload payload is received from a source computing system and includes input data, trusted execution code, and one or more trusted execution policies. At least one of the multiple trusted execution platforms is selected based on the one or more trusted execution policies. A brokered...