US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 2 for "Control flow integrity monitoring for applications running on platforms" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,106, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control flow integrity monitoring for applications running on platforms" was invented by Andrew Zawadowskiy (Hollis, N.H.), Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), Oleg Bessonov (Littleton, Mass.) and Ashok Krishnaji Moghe (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems described herein relate to monitoring executions of computer instructions on computing devices based on learning and generating a control flow directed graph. The techniques and systems include determining an observation phase ...