US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 16 for "Control flow integrity enforcement at scale" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,106, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Control flow integrity enforcement at scale" was invented by Richard John Black (Cambridge, Great Britain), Timothy William Burrell (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Miguel Oom Temudo de Castro (Cambridge, Great Britain), Manuel Silverio da Silva Costa (Cambridge, Great Britain), Kenneth Johnson (Bellevue, Wash.) and Matthew Ryan Miller (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various technologies described herein pertain to enforcing control flow integrity by adding instrumentation when source code is compiled or binary code is rewritten. An in...