US Patent Issued to Dover Microsystems on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for updating metadata" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,394, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dover Microsystems Inc. (Wayland, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for updating metadata" was invented by Eli Boling (Wayland, Mass.), Steven Milburn (Wayland, Mass.), Gregory T. Sullivan (Wayland, Mass.) and Andrew Sutherland (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for updating metadata. In some embodiments, in response to detecting an instruction executed by a hardware system, a source location of the instruction may be identified. First metadata associated with the instruction may be used to determine whether the instruction is allowed. In response to determining that ...