ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,829, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Enterprise data container" was invented by Peter J. Marino (Seattle), Michael Adam Taft (Seattle) and Brian M. Mahaffey (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for an enterprise data container (EDC) that facilitates the secure transfer of data between data boundaries of one or more computing environments. In examples, the EDC serves as a message wrapper for transmitted data. The EDC includes metadata, identification, tracking, security attributes, authenticity, and handli...