US Patent Issued to Oceanit Laboratories, The Regents of the University of Michigan on May 20 for "Devices, systems, and methods for ransomware protection and mitigation" (Hawaii, Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,937, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oceanit Laboratories Inc. (Honolulu) and The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for ransomware protection and mitigation" was invented by David Siu (Honolulu), J. Alex Halderman (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Max Froehlich (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Steven Sprecher (Boston), Ky Ho (Honolulu) and Wen Plotnick (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods for detecting, mitigating, and protecting against malicious actions and/or malicious computer software, including malware and ransomware. Specifically, disc...