US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 18 for "Control flow integrity enforcement for applications running on platforms" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,224, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control flow integrity enforcement for applications running on platforms" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Andrew Zawadowskiy (Hollis, N.H.), Oleg Bessonov (Littleton, Mass.), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and Ashok Krishnaji Moghe (Pleasanton, Calif.).

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 telemetry represen...