ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,583, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Label-based data governance enforcement for decentralized systems" was invented by Charles Fleming (Oxford, Miss.), Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Foster City, Calif.) and Bozidar-Brannan Evgeni Kovachev (Verona, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a sidecar proxy executed by a device extracts label information from input data for input to a microservice associated with the sidecar proxy indicative of a lineage of the input data. The sidecar proxy makes, based on the label information, a determination as to whether the microservice proce...