ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,022, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Automatic retention lock extensions" was invented by Deepak Vokaliga (Hopkinton, Mass.), Benjamin A. Randolph (Uxbridge, Mass.) and Michael Ferrari (Douglas, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage system, comprising: detecting a first event, the first event being a cyber threat (CT) event, the first event being generated, at least in part, by using security software that is executed in the storage system; in response to the CT event, identifying a secure snapshot of the storage system and performing a first modification of a reten...