ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,728, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Executing remotely a data processing application" was invented by Muhammad Usman Karim Khan (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Stefan Schmitt (Holzgerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for remotely executing a data processing application using data. The method comprises: identifying using the data processing application data attributes of the data and operations on the identified data attributes. The identified operations of the identified data attributes may be used for determining encrypti...