ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,420, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Managing end-to-end data protection" was invented by Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Viersen, Germany), Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany) and Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for managing the end-to-end ("e2e") data protection. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives, from an application server, a management requirement for managing e2e data protection for at least one service. The apparatus includes a processor that obtains at least one digital identifier ...