ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,941, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing method and recording medium" was invented by Yosuke Hiratsuka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an information processing method and a recording medium, each of which allows unauthorized use of a function activated by a license to be inhibited. A first program causes a computer to execute the function activated by the license; and a second program executes license authentication in response to an instruction from the first program, at least one part of the second program obfuscated, executes one part of the ...