US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on March 25 for "Entropy-based ransomware detection" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,977, issued on March 25, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Entropy-based ransomware detection" was invented by Sri Karthik Bhagi (Morganville, N.J.), PurnaChandra Sekhar Bedhapudi (Eatontown, N.J.), Pratima Laxman Gadhave (Neptune, N.J.) and Akhilesh Naga Wathada (Neptune, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client computing device includes an entropy driver and a volume driver for protecting the client computing device against potential ransomware. The entropy driver is configured to determine one or more entropy values for a file in response to a determination that the file has been modified or change...