ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,806, issued on March 24, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for privacy-preserving workflow validations in serverless clouds" was invented by Surabhi Garg (New Delhi), Rajan Mindigal Alasingara Bhattachar (Bangalore, India) and Meena Singh Dilip Thakur (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art approaches used to address security aspects in serverless platforms perform workflow validations on an end to end flow, however, this cannot prevent attacks targeted at intermediate function calls in the workflow. Further, the existing systems store policy data in insecure...