US Patent Issued to Raptor Engineering on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for assuring integrity of operating system and software components at runtime" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,935, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Raptor Engineering LLC (Belvidere, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for assuring integrity of operating system and software components at runtime" was invented by Timothy Raymond Pearson (Boone, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure are related to systems and methods for assuring integrity of operating system and software components at runtime. More specifically, embodiments are directed towards a hardware module configured to monitor a kernel start and drivers being loaded into the kernel, and to continually scan the kernel and drivers for undesired modification af...