ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,960, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method and data processing system for executing an obfuscated computer program" was invented by Marc Vauclair (Overijse, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system and a method are provided for executing an obfuscated computer program. A function that computes an obfuscated address for each instruction of a plurality of instructions is provided. The function is factored into a first part and a second part. The first part is stored in a memory of the data processing system. The second part and a secret are stored in a secure element of the...