US Patent Issued to Magic Shell Software on Sept. 16 for "Protection of binary executables using dynamic encryption techniques" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,264, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Magic Shell Software Inc. (Olney, Md.).

"Protection of binary executables using dynamic encryption techniques" was invented by Anthony Samuel Jacobs (Olney, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for securely executing a program is described. The facility stores a number of encoded modules, each including an encoded block and a type field that contains a resource indicator that in turn identifies an encoding resource. The encoding resource has contents specifying details of a process for decoding the encoded block to obtain a working module containing executable code for a portion of t...