Patents by Inventor Mitchell Lee Souders

Mitchell Lee Souders has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11720474
    Abstract: A method, system, or apparatus to debug software that is reorganized in memory is presented. A post-mortem debugging session is established by loading an executable code component corresponding to a packed binary file into memory. A randomly reorganized layout of the machine code corresponding to the blocks of the original source code is generated based on a transformation defined in a function randomization library corresponding to the blocks of original source code. A core dump file corresponding to the crash event associated with the executing of the executable code component and a debug data file that includes symbol table information to debug the blocks of the original source code are received. An updated debug data file is generated that includes symbol table information corresponding to the randomly reorganized layout. A debugger program is called with the executable code component, the core dump file, and the updated debug data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: RUNSAFE SECURITY, INC.
    Inventor: Mitchell Lee Souders
  • Patent number: 11693760
    Abstract: A method, system, or apparatus to debug software that is reorganized in memory is presented. An interactive debugging session is established with an executable code component corresponding to a packed binary file includes machine code that corresponds to blocks of original source code. A randomly reorganized layout of the machine code is generated in memory based on a transformation defined in a function randomization library. An in-memory object file is created by using a debug data component corresponding to the packed binary file. The debug data component includes symbol table information to debug the blocks of the original source code generated prior to the randomly reorganized layout. The symbol table information is updated based on the randomly reorganized layout of the machine code, and the debugger program is instructed to load the in-memory object file with the updated symbol information to debug the blocks of the original source code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: RUNSAFE SECURITY, INC.
    Inventor: Mitchell Lee Souders
  • Publication number: 20220197778
    Abstract: A method, system, or apparatus to debug software that is reorganized in memory is presented. A post-mortem debugging session is established by loading an executable code component corresponding to a packed binary file into memory. A randomly reorganized layout of the machine code corresponding to the blocks of the original source code is generated based on a transformation defined in a function randomization library corresponding to the blocks of original source code. A core dump file corresponding to the crash event associated with the executing of the executable code component and a debug data file that includes symbol table information to debug the blocks of the original source code are received. An updated debug data file is generated that includes symbol table information corresponding to the randomly reorganized layout. A debugger program is called with the executable code component, the core dump file, and the updated debug data file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Mitchell Lee Souders
  • Publication number: 20220197777
    Abstract: A method, system, or apparatus to debug software that is reorganized in memory is presented. An interactive debugging session is established with an executable code component corresponding to a packed binary file includes machine code that corresponds to blocks of original source code. A randomly reorganized layout of the machine code is generated in memory based on a transformation defined in a function randomization library. An in-memory object file is created by using a debug data component corresponding to the packed binary file. The debug data component includes symbol table information to debug the blocks of the original source code generated prior to the randomly reorganized layout. The symbol table information is updated based on the randomly reorganized layout of the machine code, and the debugger program is instructed to load the in-memory object file with the updated symbol information to debug the blocks of the original source code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Mitchell Lee Souders