US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on Oct. 28 for "Infrastructure for preventing compromise of operating system kernels due to discovered errors" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,783, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Infrastructure for preventing compromise of operating system kernels due to discovered errors" was invented by Yueqi Chen (Broomfield, Colo.) and Zicheng Wang (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing an error from being triggered includes receiving a sanitizer report of a program as an input, analyzing the sanitizer report to find information about an error in a sanitized kernel image, mapping the information about the error to a native kernel image, constructing a triggering condition based on the information...