Patents by Inventor Nicholas Eli FRITTS

Nicholas Eli FRITTS 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).

  • System and method for preventing execution of malicious instructions stored in memory and malicious threads within an operating system of a computing device
    Patent number: 10121010
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a malicious code prevention module identifies potentially malicious instructions in volatile memory of a computing device and replaces them with innocuous instructions. In another embodiment, the malicious code prevention module identifies a potentially malicious thread within an operating system and replaces the first instruction in the thread with a new instruction that terminates the thread. Malicious code prevention module prevents malicious code from inflicting any harm on the computing device and its contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Endgame, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel D. Landau, Nicholas Eli Fritts
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING EXECUTION OF MALICIOUS INSTRUCTIONS STORED IN MEMORY AND MALICIOUS THREADS WITHIN AN OPERATING SYSTEM OF A COMPUTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170329973
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a malicious code prevention module identifies potentially malicious instructions in volatile memory of a computing device and replaces them with innocuous instructions. In another embodiment, the malicious code prevention module identifies a potentially malicious thread within an operating system and replaces the first instruction in the thread with a new instruction that terminates the thread. Malicious code prevention module prevents malicious code from inflicting any harm on the computing device and its contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Gabriel D. LANDAU, Nicholas Eli FRITTS