US Patent Issued to ARM on April 21 for "Operating system pagesize compatibility workarounds" (British, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,209, issued on April 21, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Operating system pagesize compatibility workarounds" was invented by Daniel Kristof Kiss (Pomaz, Hungary), Branislav Rankov (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ian James Rickards (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented that includes detecting, by a loader, overlapping permissions for a page while loading a binary file. When writable data overlaps with read-only code in a page, the loader copies the code part of the page with the overlapping permissions to a new page. The original page is set non-executable. The new page c...