ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,880, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Confidential computing for continuous integration pipelines" was invented by Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas), Jeremy Christian Phelps (Venice, Fla.) and Yichun Xu (Everett, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes integrating a TEE (trusted execution environment) into an architecture that supports multiple tenants, making the TEE available to a secure environment in the architecture, executing a workload comprising a continuous integration pipeline in the secure environment, using the TEE, wherein the workload is hosted in the se...