Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Ransomware Detecting Using Decoy Files' Filed by Netapp, Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441032099 A) filed by Netapp, Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on April 23, 2024, for 'ransomware detecting using decoy files.'

Inventor(s) include Arunkumar Gururajan; Muneem Shahriar; Mesfin Dema; and Phani Srikanth Bhavani Sankar.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 24, under issue no. 43/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for the operation of a ransomware detection system. The ransomware detection system generates a decoy file based on characteristics of an existing file in a file system. The decoy file is effectively indistinguishable from ...