ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,007, issued on June 17, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Detecting ransomware in monitored data" was invented by Sri Karthik Bhagi (Morganville, N.J.), Pratima Laxman Gadhave (Neptune, N.J.), Marcelo dos Reis Mansano (Curitiba, Brazil), Mrityunjay Upadhyay (Hyderabad, India), Purnachandra Sekhar Bedhapudi (Edison, N.J.) and Shyam Sundar Ramkumar (East Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information management system includes one or more client computing devices in communication with a storage manager and a secondary storage computing device. The storage manager manages the primary data of th...