ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,904, issued on July 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"System for application protection and non-transitory machine-readable medium for storing program code that provides application protection when executed" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Lun Suei (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Chi Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for application (APP) protection includes a processor. The processor is arranged to execute a guest virtual machine (VM), at least one primary VM, a hypervisor, and a host VM, wherein at least one APP protection with at least one identification (ID) of the at...