ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,555, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Application integrity attestation" was invented by Herve Sibert (Le Mans, France), Eric D. Friedman (Berkeley, Calif.), Erik C. Neuenschwander (San Mateo, Calif.), Jerrold V. Hauck (Windermere, Fla.), Thomas P. Mensch (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Julien F. Freudiger (San Francisco) and Alan W. Yu (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to application verification. In various embodiments, a computing device includes a secure circuit configured to maintain a plurality of cryptographic keys of the computing device. In such an e...