US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 23 for "Analyzing file entropy to identify adverse conditions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,424, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Analyzing file entropy to identify adverse conditions" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Omer, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network connected storage device detects unusual file-sharing-command activity based on a baseline file-sharing-command signature and analyzes files stored on the storage with respect to a parameter, such as entropy, to determine whether ransomware may have infiltrated the storage device, or a storage associated therewith. Applying by the storage device a...