ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,611, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to IRON GAMING Ltd. (St. Julians, Malta).
"Method and apparatus for validating software use on an apparatus" was invented by Peter Zmijewski (Singapore) and Scott Dowdell (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for validating software usage are described. The method involves collecting data containing user activity data when a piece of software is running and being used by a user, periodically generating a data packet containing the data collected to obtain a plurality of the data packets; verifying that each data packet is generated according to predetermined rules, ch...