G06F 21/125
By manipulating the program code
Official title: {by manipulating the program code, e.g. source code, compiled code, interpreted code, machine code}
G06F21/125 (By manipulating the program code) appears on 713 US grants and 802 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 802
- Assignees
- 363
- Inventors
- 1,476
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 17 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Operating system-level assistive features for contextual privacy22 Sep 2026US 12,743,490 B2Google Inc.
- Analysing operating system configurations1 Sep 2026US 12,724,893 B2Nanyang Technological University
- Software-as-an-intellectual property system and method25 Aug 2026US 12,717,551 B1
- Systems and methods for injecting code for tamper detection in a playback application11 Aug 2026US 12,705,317 B2Verimatrix, Inc.
- Limiting a number of illegitimate interrupts from switching a central processing unit to a system management mode28 Jul 2026US 12,694,121 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Method and System for Securing SCADA and Industrial Control Software through Secure-Write Operations24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288914 A1
- Encrypted virtual media to prevent disclosure of confidential bootable media3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260000 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Messaging protocol for compact script transactions27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253070 A1nChain Licensing AG
- Software use system and software use method7 May 2026US 2026/0126969 A1connectFree Corporation
- Drm-based content encryption/decryption systems and encryption/decryption methods30 Apr 2026US 2026/0119620 A1Korea Electronics Technology Institute
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for licensing software on a network of computers770US 5,138,712 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1992
- Secure system for activating personal computer software at remote locations673US 5,222,134 ATau Systems Corporation · 1993
- Secure system for activating personal computer software at remote locations491US 5,103,476 A1992
- Automated system for management of licensed software473US 5,790,664 ANetwork Engineering Software, Inc. · 1998
- Method and apparatus for enabling trial period use of software products: method and apparatus for utilizing a decryption stub411US 5,737,416 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998