US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 13 for "Detection of ransomware attack at object store" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,545, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Detection of ransomware attack at object store" was invented by Bhakti Chowkwale (Freemont, Calif.), Paul Roger Heath (Severna Park, Md.) and Rupasree Roy (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein provides batchwise metric-based malware detection by receiving a plurality of input/output (IO) requests, generating IO trace sequences by combining a number of IO requests, generating batchwise metrics, each of the batchwise metrics corresponding to one of the IO trace sequences and generated based on an operation perfor...