ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,040, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Blockhouse Technology Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Code deployment" was invented by Andrew William Roscoe (Oxford, Great Britain) and Pedro Ribeiro Goncalves Antonino (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a trusted execution environment for analysing source code from a third-party vendor is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an encrypted source code and using a secure key stored within the trusted execution environment to decrypt the encrypted source code to produce a decrypted source code. The decrypted source code is analyzed to determine a tru...