US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for selecting client backup files for maliciousness analysis" (Singaporean, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,693, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for selecting client backup files for maliciousness analysis" was invented by Dinil Mon Divakaran (Singapore), Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for selecting files for malware analysis. In one aspect, a method may include identifying, in a cloud network, a backup of a client machine; extracting, from the backup, at least one file of a given file type; determining whether t...