ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,357, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Authorization management method and system" was invented by Po-Yang Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authorization management method, adapted to a deployed software installed on a first processing device, includes: disabling at least a portion of the deployed software by the first processing device, outputting an encrypted value based on device information of the first processing device after the disabling by the first processing device, receiving and decrypting the encrypted value to obtain decrypted information by a second pro...