US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 15 for "Unpacking software via auto-unpacker interception" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,131, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Unpacking software via auto-unpacker interception" was invented by Vladimir Tokarev (Herzelia, Israel), Yuval Gordon (Givataiym, Israel) and Gil Regev (Yehud, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of an interception-based unpacker leverage an auto-unpacker of a packed file, using certain hooks, to obtain unpacked content even when the specific compression and encryption algorithms that were used to pack the packed file are unknown. The unpacked content is studied directly, or injected into a copy of the packed file to create...