US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Sept. 30 for "Shadow backup and anti-malware protection for UNIX-based machines" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,435, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Shadow backup and anti-malware protection for UNIX-based machines" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Serg Bell (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Denis Kopyrin (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for embedding into a storage stack of a UNIX based computing device. A method includes building a file storage map for a file stored in computing device data storage, intercepting a system call associated with the file, intercepting a storage stack operation, and anal...