US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 25 for "App profile verification in computing devices" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,238, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"App profile verification in computing devices" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums that enhance transaction authentication of a transaction of a first application by checking that a state of one or more other applications matches prespecified states or that one or more of those applications transition states within a prespecified period of time. For example, the prespecified states may correspond to the application being installed on a specified devic...