US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 14 for "Oracle for authenticating software layers using software security version numbers and security context" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,082, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Oracle for authenticating software layers using software security version numbers and security context" was invented by Jeffrey Thomas Andersen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Marius Paul Michiel Schilder (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an example method including maintaining a current version info list including version info tuples for software layers. The example method includes, upon receipt of a request for a registered version key, performing a comparison algorithm to authenticate a reque...