ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,123, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Use of a trust score plan" was invented by Charles Damian O'Neill (Ballymena, Great Britain), Simon James (Newtownards, Great Britain), Hayden Paul Shorter (Bangor, Great Britain) and Kieran Gerald McPeake (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques that include assessing trust in a system, and in particular, assessing trust for entities based on a trust score plan. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes identifying, by the computing system, a selected trust score ...