US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 1 for "Ransomware activity detection and data protection" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,621, issued on April 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Ransomware activity detection and data protection" was invented by Mohammed Asher Vt (Bangalore, India), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.), Sandeep Chandrashekhara (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Malak Alshawabkeh (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ransomware activity detection and data protection is implemented by a remote R2 storage array on an asynchronous remote data replication facility, on which data from a primary R1 storage array is replicated to the remote storage array. Write operations on storage volumes in a remote data replication group...