US Patent Issued to NXP on Nov. 25 for "Data processing system and method for mitigating a malware attack" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,754, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Data processing system and method for mitigating a malware attack" was invented by Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels) and Christine van Vredendaal (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for mitigating a malware attack to a data processing system. The method may include initializing a malware stagnation file in the data processing system. The malware stagnation file can generate a range of addresses that do not exist in the memory and are not mapped to any applications of the data processing system. During operation of the data p...