ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,425, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Pave and/or repave systems and methods using ransomware protection smart network interface controller or ransomware protection storage device secure snapshots" was invented by Wai Chuen Yim (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system (IHS) smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) or storage device having a ransomware protection (engine) that paves an IHS by creating a secure snapshot of a boot device of the IHS, creating a read and writable snapshot from the secure snapshot, and exposing the read and writable snaps...