ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,040, issued on Feb. 11.
"Blocking routine redirection" was invented by David Linde (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for blocking attempts at runtime redirection and attempts to change memory permissions during runtime. The present disclosure describes features that enable runtime detection of an attempt to redirect routines or change memory permissions, and determining whether to allow or deny the attempt. Such features may include changing memory write permissions on memory segments, such as those segments used by dynamic loaders after call assoc...