US Patent 11783012 Fingerprinted software

The invention involves a computer or system of computers such as workstations used to provide human-readable code along with a tag associate therewith, said tag containing identifying data to an operating computer. Using a database of authorized computers (workstations), the operating computer receives the line(s) of human-readable code from the workstation and converts it into machine readable code, if and only if, the source of the code is authorized based on the database of authorized computers.