Patents by Inventor Nathan Taylor KENNEDY

Nathan Taylor KENNEDY 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: 10990667
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for automatically protecting, or hardening, software against exploits of memory-corruption vulnerabilities. The techniques include arranging a plurality of guard regions in the memory in relation to data objects formed by the application program, identifying an access by the application program to a guard region arranged in the memory as a disallowed access, and modifying the execution of the application program in response to the identifying, the modifying being in order to prevent exploitation of the memory and/or to correctly execute the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GrammaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: David Gordon Melski, Nathan Taylor Kennedy, Drew Christian Dehaas
  • Publication number: 20180247057
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for automatically protecting, or hardening, software against exploits of memory-corruption vulnerabilities. The techniques include arranging a plurality of guard regions in the memory in relation to data objects formed by the application program, identifying an access by the application program to a guard region arranged in the memory as a disallowed access, and modifying the execution of the application program in response to the identifying, the modifying being in order to prevent exploitation of the memory and/or to correctly execute the application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: David Gordon MELSKI, Nathan Taylor KENNEDY, Drew Christian DEHAAS
  • Patent number: 9990492
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for automatically protecting, or hardening, software against exploits of memory-corruption vulnerabilities. The techniques include arranging a plurality of guard regions in the memory in relation to data objects formed by the application program, identifying an access by the application program to a guard region arranged in the memory as a disallowed access, and modifying the execution of the application program in response to the identifying, the modifying being in order to prevent exploitation of the memory and/or to correctly execute the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: GrammaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: David Gordon Melski, Nathan Taylor Kennedy, Drew Christian Dehaas
  • Publication number: 20160026791
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for automatically protecting, or hardening, software against exploits of memory-corruption vulnerabilities. The techniques include arranging a plurality of guard regions in the memory in relation to data objects formed by the application program, identifying an access by the application program to a guard region arranged in the memory as a disallowed access, and modifying the execution of the application program in response to the identifying, the modifying being in order to prevent exploitation of the memory and/or to correctly execute the application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: David Gordon MELSKI, Nathan Taylor KENNEDY, Drew Christian DEHAAS