US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 16 for "System and method for software-defined network attached storage (SDNAS) ransomware attack detection and prevention" (New Jersey, Montana, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,284, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for software-defined network attached storage (SDNAS) ransomware attack detection and prevention" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispells, Mont.), Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Walter Forrester (Berkeley Heights, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a plurality of operations on a storage object within a file storage system at a file level. The plurality of operations are monitored for at least a threshold number of file modification operations w...