ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,020, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"AI-generated virtual file honeypots for computing systems behavior-based protection against ransomware attacks" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Alexey Kostyushko (Yerevan, Armenia), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for protecting computing systems against ransomware attacks using AI-generated virtual file honeypots. Generative AI comprising a large language model generates virtual file honeypots automatically in ...