US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Techniques for identifying vetted software applications that provide unauthorized features" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,538, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for identifying vetted software applications that provide unauthorized features" was invented by Tanmay Wadhwa (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This Application sets forth techniques for identifying when a vetted software application transitions into providing unauthorized features. In particular, the techniques involve identifying original operating characteristics of a software application during a vetting process that is performed by a management entity (and/or other vetting entities). The vetting process produces a vetted software ...