ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,253, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controlling workload execution on trusted execution environments" was invented by Timo Kussmaul (Boeblingen, Germany), Muhammad Usman Karim Khan (Sindelfingen, Germany), Stefan Liesche (Boeblingen, Germany), Marco Pavone (Ehningen, Germany) and Ephraim Petry (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product receive constraints for execution of a workload on one or more trusted execution environments from a plurality of entities. The constraints form a constraint space. An execution requireme...