US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on June 24 for "Hypervisor-based interception of memory and register accesses" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,979, issued on June 24, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hypervisor-based interception of memory and register accesses" was invented by Ion-Alexandru Ionescu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security agent configured to initiate a security agent component as a hypervisor for a computing device is described herein. The security agent component may then determine pages of the memory which include identified memory locations and set privilege attributes of those pages to prevent specific types of access to the memory locations, such as executing code stored at a memory location. Also, the security agent co...