US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 5 for "Vault overwriting after PLC (protection lifecycle) designation disallowance by transmission to public vault" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,912, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Vault overwriting after PLC (protection lifecycle) designation disallowance by transmission to public vault" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One method includes monitoring a ransomware risk measure, when the ransomware risk measure indicates the presence of a suspected ransomware process, determining if it is time to overwrite a snapshot stored in backup data storage, and w...