US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Organization-level ransomware incrimination" (Israeli, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,615, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Organization-level ransomware incrimination" was invented by Arie Agranonik (Herzliya, Israel), Shay Kels (Givatayim, Israel), Amir Rubin (Vancouver, Canada), Charles Edouard Elie Bettan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yair Tsarfaty (Nahariya, Israel) and Itai Kollmann Dekel (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments help protect an organization against ransomware attacks by combining incrimination logics. An organizational-level incrimination logic helps detect alert spikes across many machines, which collectively indicate an atta...