ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,359, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for providing information usable to identify trust in data" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing trust in data are disclosed. Generated data may be more or less reliable depending on the manner in which the data is generated. To identify a level of trust to have in generated data, information regarding the conditions under which data was generated may be provided along with the generated data. The added information may allow ...