ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,270, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cloud Linux Software Inc. (Estero, Fla.).
"Systems and methods for loading modified classes into a running application" was invented by Igor Seletskiy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nikita Popov (Perm, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for dynamically updating classes in a running application. In one aspect, a method may include identifying an application running within a virtual machine (VM); generating, within the application, a patcher thread for processing patches; instantiating, within the application, a patcher class using a singleton pattern; instal...