ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,200, issued on April 15, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Fail-safe software access licensing control on a per project basis without a priori knowledge of project details" was invented by Mathew V. Philip (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joseph R. Walston (Durham, N.C.) and Stylianos Diamantidis (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request may be received to use a software on a first project. A first set of values may be extracted for a set of features of the first project. A classifier may be used to classify the first project based on the first set of values. It may be determined whether to grant the request to...