ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,945, issued on May 20, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Israel Services Ltd (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
"Advanced ransomware detection" was invented by Erez Levy (Petach Tikva, Israel), Or Chechik (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Liav Zigelbaum (Holon, Israel) and Eldar Aharoni (Holon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include protecting a computer system coupled to a storage device by detecting an executing process that performed a specific type of modification to a number of files stored on the storage device. A processor compares the detec...