US Patent Issued to NXP on July 14 for "Scalable code signature approach for control-flow integrity" (Austrian, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,055, issued on July 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Scalable code signature approach for control-flow integrity" was invented by Marcel Medwed (Stattegg, Austria), Jan Hoogerbrugge (Helmond, Netherlands), Georg Martin Pacher (Graz, Austria), Philip Ortlieb (Graz, Austria) and Mario Lamberger (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor and methods of detecting a corrupted instruction stream within a processor include executing, by the processor, a program including a plurality of basic blocks, each of which includes a sequence of instructions to be executed by the processor without branching. The ...