ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,998, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Attestation of a cloud-based execution environment for project planning" was invented by Christian Peter Feist (Munich), Rainer Falk (Erding, Germany), Stefan Becker (Adelsdorf, Germany) and Klaus-Peter Hofmann (Aurachtal-Munchaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an attestation component configured to attest a cloud-based execution environment. The cloud-based execution environment comprises at least one application instance and a project plan assigned to the at least one application instance. The attestation co...