US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Protecting commercial off-the-shelf program binaries from piracy using hardware enclaves" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,916, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Protecting commercial off-the-shelf program binaries from piracy using hardware enclaves" was invented by Xinyang Ge (Redmond, Wash.), Weidong Cui (Redmond, Wash.), Ben Niu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ling Tony Chen (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and methods for protecting commercial off-the-shelf software program code from piracy. A software program may include an executable file. The executable file may include code and data. A platform may modify the executable file such that the data may be p...