US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 25 for "Protection of cloud storage devices from anomalous encryption operations" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,571, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Protection of cloud storage devices from anomalous encryption operations" was invented by Ariel Brukman (Kiryat Ata, Israel) and Ram Haim Pliskin (Rishon Le Tsion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus includes a processor that determines that an encryption operation has been requested or executed through a cloud control plane capability with respect to a cloud storage device. The processor also determines that the requested or executed encryption operation with respect to the cloud storage device is anoma...