ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,889, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems to enforce data boundaries through the use of boundary labels" was invented by Kshitij Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.) and Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of an edge gateway disclosed herein includes an access evaluator to determine whether a data access attempt, if permitted, will cause data specified in the data access attempt to cross a data boundary, the data boundary associated with at least one condition to be met before the data specified in the data ...