ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,394, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Attack mitigation at the file system level" was invented by Piers Changyong Yu (Shanghai) and Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures and techniques are described that can provide file system level attack mitigation techniques for a data storage service system or other network service system. By operating at a file system level, the disclosed techniques can access information that is unavailable at the block volume level and which can be leveraged to accurately identify a source of a potential attack. By accurately ...