ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,148, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"DCF-informed access control for data fusion in edge environments" 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: "A computing system may receive a data stream from a plurality of data sources of an edge environment. The computing system may identify a confidence score associated with each data stream received from the plurality of data sources. The computing system may, based on the associated confidence score, determine a confidence level of each data stream received from the pl...