ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,380, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Trusted execution environment for distributed data security in the service mesh" was invented by Charles Fleming (Oxford, Miss.) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method is disclosed comprising: associating, by a device in a service mesh, a security function with a portion of an online application that is executed in a distributed manner across the service mesh; executing, by the device, the security function and the portion of the online application within a trusted execution e...