US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 3 for "Hardware based address sanitizer for embedded systems" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,463, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hardware based address sanitizer for embedded systems" was invented by Norris Geng (San Diego), Gurvinder Singh Chhabra (San Diego), Richard Senior (San Diego), Suresh Kumar Venkumahanti (Austin, Texas) and Christopher Koob (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has a data memory region with multiple data symbols and inaccessible zones, a first inaccessible zone placed before each data symbol and a second inaccessible zone placed after each data symbol. The apparatus also has a shadow memory region corresponding to the data memory region. The sh...