US Patent Issued to Magic Shell Software on Nov. 25 for "Protection, obfuscation, and optimization of binary executables using recompilation" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,732, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Magic Shell Software Inc. (Olney, Md.).

"Protection, obfuscation, and optimization of binary executables using recompilation" was invented by Anthony Samuel Jacobs (Olney, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for protecting executables is described. The facility accesses a first executable representation of a program and decompiles it to obtain an intermediate representation of the program. The facility obfuscates the intermediate representation of the program, and recompiles the obfuscated intermediate representation of the program to obtain a second executable representation of the p...