US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 23 for "Hardware revocation engine for temporal memory safety" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,988, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware revocation engine for temporal memory safety" was invented by David Thomas Chisnall (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hongyan Xia (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nathaniel Wesley Filardo (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Robert McNeill Norton-Wright (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware revocation engine for invalidating a pointer, that refers to a deallocated object, from memory in a memory constrained system. The hardware revocation engine has a revocation pipeline coupled to a pipeline of a main processor of th...