ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,080, issued on May 19, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Application detection method and associated non-transitory machine-readable medium" was invented by Chen-Ting Chao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Cheng-Han Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hong-Ruei Jhang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chang-Long Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application (APP) detection method includes: after an APP is launched, obtaining a process identifier (PID) corresponding to the APP from a first library; performing a calling operation upon an application programming interface (API) according to the PID; in response to th...