US Patent Issued to Google on May 6 for "Determining expected hash-values in functions with control flow" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,194, issued on May 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining expected hash-values in functions with control flow" was invented by Nathaniel Casey Voorhies (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Antonio Cortes Perez (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses that enable determining expected hash-values in functions with control flow. A computing device receives a function comprising function instructions within at least three basic blocks connected via multiple execution paths. Hash-input instructions are inserted within a plurality of the basic blocks that indirect...