US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 23 for "Modifying bytecode to return an address associated with a target function" (Greek, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,077, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Modifying bytecode to return an address associated with a target function" was invented by Stephane Epardaud (Peille, France) and Georgios Andrianakis (Attica, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bytecode can be modified to adjust a returned address associated with a target function according to some examples. In one such example, a system can analyze bytecode to identify a location of a first bytecode segment that is intended to return an address for a target function. The system can then modify the bytecode to replace the first bytecode segment with a second...