ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,617, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Malware mitigation based on runtime memory allocation" was invented by Lute Edwin Engels (Zuidwolde, Netherlands), Mark Willem Loman (Delden, Netherlands), Alexander Vermaning (Enschede, Netherlands), Erik Jan Loman (Hengelo, Netherlands) and Victor Marinus Johann Simon van Hillo (Delden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute instance is instrumented to detect certain kernel memory allocation functions, in particular functions that allocate heap memory and/or make allocated memory executable. Dynamic shell code exploits can then be detected...