US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 5 for "Return address validation watchdog to discover ROP chains in exploits engineering cloud delivered security services (CDSS)" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,212, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Return address validation watchdog to discover ROP chains in exploits engineering cloud delivered security services (CDSS)" was invented by Tao Yan (San Jose, Calif.), Edouard Bochin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bo Qu (Saratoga, Calif.), Zhibin Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Harbison (Salisbury, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for detecting Return Oriented Programming (ROP) exploits. The method includes (i) intercepting, by one or more processors, a memory attribute change...