ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,057, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Portable policy execution using embedded machines" was invented by Torin Sandall (San Francisco), Timothy L Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.) and Teemu Koponen (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for evaluating authorization policies that restrict access to API (Application Programming Interfaces) calls to an application executing on a host system. At the application, the method receives an API call to execute. The method directs a process virtual machine (VM) executing inside the application to make an authorization decision...