US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies Canada, The Governing Council of the University of Toronto on April 22 for "Methods, apparatuses, non-transitory computer-readable storage devices, and systems using fine-grained whole-program pointer layout transforms" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,668, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Canada Co. Ltd. (Kanata, Canada) and The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto).

"Methods, apparatuses, non-transitory computer-readable storage devices, and systems using fine-grained whole-program pointer layout transforms" was invented by Yifei Wang (Beijing), David Juen Fung Lie (Toronto) and Shengjie Xu (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for analyzing and updating intermediate representations containing pointers includes compiling one or more source files into intermediate representations (IRs) having pointers, analyzing the IR...