US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 16 for "Inline control flow monitor with enforcement" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,231, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inline control flow monitor with enforcement" was invented by Andrew Zawadowskiy (Hollis, N.H.), Oleg Bessonov (Littleton, Mass.) and Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems described herein relate to monitoring executions of computer instructions on computing devices based on learning and generating a control flow directed graph. The techniques and systems include determining a learned control flow directed graph for a process executed on the computing system. A system call is identified during execu...