ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,420, issued on July 1, was assigned to Decentralized Biotechnology Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for protecting software applications of electronic computing devices" was invented by Yen-Han Chou (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yao-Sheng Chou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting application programs of electronic computing devices, which includes arranging a fingerprint detection device at least partially overlapped on the display screen of the electronic computing device, setting a verification area on the display screen to lock or unlock the software applications or files framed by the verifi...