ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,963, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Unauthorized data encryption detection based on pattern matching at a storage system" was invented by Joseph E. Algieri (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Alex Veprinsky (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a storage system intercepts a write request communicated over a network from a requester in a host system, the write request to write data of a data volume. The storage system determines whether the data of the write request matches a specified pattern. In response to determining that the data of the write reque...