ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,964, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Druva Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-step approach for ransomware detection" was invented by Adwait Bhave (Pune, India), Hemanshu Asolia (Pune, India) and Neeraj Thakur (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server manager for detecting ransomware includes a server interface to retrieve, from a storage device, a backup of a plurality of files stored by a client device. A ransomware detection module includes a statistical filter to generate a standard pattern of file activities of the client device for a time period. A statistical behavior analysis is performed on the backup of the pl...