ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,424, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and solution to obfuscate and prevent the pattern analysis of java archives" was invented by Surendra Chauhan (Bangalore, India) and Udit Tyagi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, system, and non-transitory processor-readable storage medium for a design obfuscation system are provided herein. An example method includes a design obfuscation system that receives software code to be compiled on a system running a software compiler. The design obfuscation system generates obfuscated code from at least a portion of the software code, ...