ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,619, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nasuni Corp. (Boston).

"Cloud-native global file system with rapid ransomware recovery" was invented by Andres Rodriguez (Boston), Daphne M. Shaw (Newton, Mass.), John A. Capello (Cambridge, Mass.) and Matthew J. Stech (Huntley, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-native global file system, in which one or more filers are associated with a volume of a versioned files system in a private, public or hybrid cloud object store, is augmented to include a rapid ransomware recovery service. Upon detecting a ransomware attack associated with one or more files or directories of the volume, read a...