US Patent Issued to Accenture Global Solutions on Jan. 13 for "Secure data backup and recovery from cyberattacks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,546, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Secure data backup and recovery from cyberattacks" was invented by Andrew Truscott (Spring, Texas), Teresa Sheausan Tung (Tustin, Calif.), Brandon Winful (Fannin, Texas) and Mallikarjun Bepeta (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that support providing secure backup and recovery of files from edge devices during ransomware attacks or other cyberattacks. Secure data, such as medical records, may be stored at one or more networked storage nodes and backup i...