US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on May 27 for "Detection of ransomware attack using entropy values" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,393, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Detection of ransomware attack using entropy values" was invented by Alex Veprinsky (San Jose, Calif.), Gil Barash (Ra'anana, Israel) and Oded Kedem (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to storing data in a storage system. An example includes accessing a first portion of a data stream to be stored in a storage system; selecting sample data blocks included in the first portion; determining entropy values based on the sample data blocks; selecting, based on the sample data blocks, a entropy thres...