US Patent Issued to Apple on May 13 for "Hardware verification of dynamically generated code" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,447, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Hardware verification of dynamically generated code" was invented by Jeffrey E. Gonion (Campbell, Calif.), Michael D. Snyder (Cedar Park, Texas) and Filip J. Pizlo (Capitola, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, dynamically-generated code may be supported in the system by ensuring that the code either remains executing within a predefined region of memory or exits to one of a set of valid exit addresses. Software embodiments are described in which the dynamically-generated code is scanned prior to permitting execution of the dynamically-generat...