ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,276, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sharing container data inside a tenant's pod under different trusted execution environments (TEEs)" was invented by Ziye Yang (Shanghai), Malini K. Bhandaru (San Jose, Calif.) and Ned Smith (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multitenant environment, confidential containers for the tenant having a trusted execution environment (TEE) which have security attested, can share data within the pod or between pods. The ability to share data for confidential containers of the same tenant eliminates the need to have multiple copies for different confi...