US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and method for kernel runtime randomization" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,212, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and method for kernel runtime randomization" was invented by Dmitry Kasatkin (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a processor coupled to a non-volatile memory and a runtime memory. The processor is configured to read, from the non-volatile memory, a linked executable image and a randomization image. The linked executable image includes a linked executable program, and the randomization image includes one or more of a symbol table, a relocation table, and an object table. The processor loads the linked executabl...