US Patent Issued to WHOLE SKY TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Hardware enforcement of boundaries on the control, space, time, modularity, reference, initialization, and mutability aspects of software" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,213, issued on July 29, was assigned to WHOLE SKY TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY (Mill Valley, Calif.).

"Hardware enforcement of boundaries on the control, space, time, modularity, reference, initialization, and mutability aspects of software" was invented by Daniel Shawcross Wilkerson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modifications to existing computer hardware, compiler changes or source-to-source transforms performed during the software build process, and a collection of libraries and modifications to existing standard system software and libraries. The invention allows a program author to enforce various kinds of locality of...