US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Filesystem object protection from ransomware attacks" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,090, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Filesystem object protection from ransomware attacks" was invented by Niteesh Kumar Dubey (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Ramanjaneya Sarma Burugula (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Joefon Jann (Ossining, N.Y.) and Ching-Farn Eric Wu (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program product, and a system for mitigating unauthorized encryptions of filesystem objects stored on a computing system. The method includes allocating a backup memory area for storing pre-encrypted filesystem objects, setting data bits in an enc...