ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,612, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Techniques for managing software applications" was invented by Geoffrey McCormack (San Jose, Calif.), Damien P. Sorresso (San Francisco), Eric B. Tamura (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Robert J. Kendall-Kuppe (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enclosed herein are techniques for securely executing an application. A method can be implemented by an operating system of a computing device, where the computing device includes a file system volume that includes a first data structure, and the method includes the steps of (1) receiving a request to launch the appl...