ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,394, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic mapping and rerouting of a non-optimized binary to an optimized binary" was invented by Eric Brumer (Woodinville, Wash.), Shayne Daniel Hiet-Block (White Rock, Canada), Austen Isaac Ott (Redmond, Wash.) and Terry Jack Mahaffey (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are provided for dynamically mapping and rerouting a non-optimized binary to an optimized binary. Embodiments identify a position-independent portion within a non-optimized binary and receive metadata associated with ...