US Patent Issued to ARM on Feb. 10 for "Automated deployment of relocatable code blocks as an attack countermeasure in software" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,704, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Automated deployment of relocatable code blocks as an attack countermeasure in software" was invented by Brendan James Moran (Coton, Great Britain) and Michael Bartling (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method is provided. The computer implemented method includes receiving, for execution by a processing element, a relocatable instrumented code block, the relocatable instrumented code block being code that has undergone instrumentation for a monitoring system, duplicating at least one function of the relocatable instrumente...