ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,315, issued on July 21.

"Method to store data persistently by a software payload" was invented by Francois-Xavier Marseille (Marly le Roi, France), Fadela Letourneur (Maurepas, France) and Frederic Ruget (Nanterre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to store data persistently by a payload of an owner, the method including establishing a secure channel between the owner and the software payload itself when running into a hardware-based trusted executed environment, HW TEE, at the instance of a cloud service provider; generating, by the owner, a payload identifier using information shared from the payload during the establi...