ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,629, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"DCF-driven audit and compliance reporting" was invented by Pankaj Pande (Carlingford, Australia) and Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, from a DCF (data confidence fabric) including a node that comprises a data source of an edge environment, a confidence score concerning a data stream associated with the data source, correlating the confidence score to a compliance level of the edge environment with regard to a specified requirement for the edge environment, generating, based on the c...