US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for protecting information handling systems using a ransomware protection storage device" (Massachusetts, Texas, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,266, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for protecting information handling systems using a ransomware protection storage device" was invented by Wai Chuen Yim (Merrimack, N.H.), Walter O'Brien III (Westboro, Mass.) and Ali Aiouaz (Bee Cave, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system ransomware protection device has a ransomware protection engine that implements secure snapshot policies in a domain of a storage device by taking a secure snapshot of a data object, by creating a point in time image of a storage object and retaining the point in time ima...