ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,961, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Malware mitigating storage controller" was invented by Ian Davies (Longmont, Colo.), Michael Barrell (Superior, Colo.) and Douglas William Dewey (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mitigating the effects of malware is provided. The method includes determining a compressibility of a portion of data, determining a data corruption condition is satisfied based on the determined compressibility, and modifying a retention policy for retention of stored snapshots associated with the portion of data based on the satisfaction of the dat...