ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,080, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"System object tracking for rule violation detection" was invented by Hyuk Joon Kwon (Redmond, Wash.), Jakob F. Lichtenberg (Redmond, Wash.), Matthew J. Woolman (Seattle) and Christopher Peter Kleynhans (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing system object tracking for rule violation detection. In various examples, in response to a trigger event, a computing system may track a system object by tracking a tracker object corresponding to a memory address range of a database that has been ...