US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 11 for "Method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of a ransomware attack on a storage volume" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,573, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of a ransomware attack on a storage volume" was invented by John Madden Jr. (Holden, Mass.), Benjamin A. F. Randolph (Uxbridge, Mass.), Jeremy O'Hare (Westborough, Mass.) and Rong Yu (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Ransomware Activity Detection System (RADS) characterizes historic read/write IO activity on a storage volume, and also characterizes historic data characteristics of the storage volume, such as the percentage reducibility of the data held in the storage volume. The RADS mo...