US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Process launch constraints" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,016, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Process launch constraints" was invented by David P. Remahl (Woodside, Calif.), Kyle C. Brogle (San Francisco), Robert J. Kendall-Kuppe (Rockville, Md.), Pavlo Malynin (Fremont, Calif.) and Geoffrey McCormack (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kernel of an operating system receives a request from a parent process (e.g., an exec or spawn system call) to launch a child process that executes a binary. The kernel identifies a process-specific launch constraint, which is a precondition for launching the child process. The kernel evaluates the constrai...