ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,238, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zimperium Inc. (Dallas).

"Tamper-resistant code obfuscation with control flow breaking" was invented by Antonio Nappa (Madrid), Grant Stewart Goodes (Manotick, Canada) and Javier Lopez Gomez (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for providing a code obfuscation solution. The system accesses a computer program comprising a set of instructions and a sequence in which the set of instructions are to be performed. The system determines a plurality of computing resources available to perform the set of instructions and assigns the set of instructions to be distrib...