US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 25 for "System and method for file recovery from malicious attacks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,983, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for file recovery from malicious attacks" was invented by Benjamin Edward Santaus (Somerville, Mass.) and Dale Robert Bremner (Wrentham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A file recovery method executed by a storage device among a plurality of storage devices is provided. The file recovery method includes: detecting that the storage device is compromised and deleting file slices and an original encryption key from the storage of the storage device; after the deleting, generating a new encryption key different from the original encrypti...