US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Critical-object guided operating system fuzzing" (Connecticut, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,069, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Critical-object guided operating system fuzzing" was invented by Jinghao Jia (Urbana, Ill.), Michael Vu Le (Danbury, Conn.), Md Salman Ahmed (Danbury, Conn.) and Hani Talal Jamjoom (Cos Cob, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A critical-object guided operating system fuzzing method, system, and computer program product for guiding an operating system fuzzer to find security-related bugs in a kernel space of the operating system that includes identifying critical/sensitive objects, determining binary code addresses that result in access to...