ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,152, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data confidence fabrics and a sidecar proxy" was invented by Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.), Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas), Ahmed Khalid (Cork, Ireland) and Mustafa Al-Bado (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proxy or sidecar configured to connect an application to a data confidence fabric is discloses. The sidecar is configured to perform functions related to the transmission of data. As the sidecar intercepts communications to/from an associated application, the sidecar determines which of several functions to perform related to ...