US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 8 for "Changing program behavior at runtime" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,748, issued on April 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Changing program behavior at runtime" was invented by Jingyu Ma (Chong Qing, China) and Yong Liu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is configured to override an original behavior of a function at runtime. Overriding the original behavior of the function at runtime includes identifying an override behavior for overriding the original behavior of the function, and encoding replacement code based on the override behavior. Further, a size of the replacement code is identified, and a first memory address of the funct...