ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,391, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ava Labs Inc. (New York).

"Secure and trustworthy computing environments for exchanges" was invented by Michael Edmond Kaplan (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Emre Kanatli (New York), Bernard Wong (Waterloo, Canada) and Emin Gun Sirer (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing an exchange in a trusted execution environment can include an exchange program that is configured to provide a digital exchange for digital assets and a computer system with a secure enclave that is configured to provide the trusted execution environment within which processing of programs is secure from observation a...