US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 24 for "Ransomware protection systems and methods leveraging smart network interface controllers" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,958, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Ransomware protection systems and methods leveraging smart network interface controllers" was invented by Wai Chuen Yim (Merrimack, N.H.) and Walter O'Brien III (Westboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ransomware protection smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) is configured to implement data protection in a domain of the SmartNIC by taking a secure snapshot, a point in time image of a storage object, and retaining the point in time image of the storage object until a retention timer has expired, and implementing vault semantics and operat...