ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,580, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Confidence fabric enhanced privacy-preserving data aggregation" was invented by Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.) and Pankaj Pande (Carlingford, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhancing privacy-preserving data aggregation with a data confidence fabric or confidence scores. Data points ingested into a data confidence fabric are associated with a confidence score. The confidence score is generated as trust insertion technologies are applied to the data points. The confidence score reflects a trustworthiness of the data and reflects how the d...