US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 27 for "Control flow integrity measurements to validate flow of control in computing systems" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,070, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Control flow integrity measurements to validate flow of control in computing systems" was invented by Miguel Cristian Young de la Sota (Cambridge, Mass.) and Miguel Angel Osorio Lozano (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at implementing control flow integrity measurements to validate control flow in computing systems. Within a scope, a local variable is initialized and configured to store a measurement value of a local control flow. During operations within the scope, at least on...