US Patent Issued to Acronis International on March 4 for "Exact restoration of a computing system to the state prior to infection" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,609, issued on March 4, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Exact restoration of a computing system to the state prior to infection" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Sergey Ulasen (Singapore), Serguei Beloussov (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and method for creating a backup and restoring the exact clean system state prior to malware detection. The system includes a security system, in communication with one or more applications of a computing system, and a backup unit. The security system detects ...